Crossword for Thu, 9/Dec/2010

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Across
1: Cunning

3: Most hair-raising

8: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' character

9: New convert

10: Resolute

12: Compassionate

13: Undemocratic law

14: Male ancestor

16: Stage performers

18: Lifting apparatus

19: Certain rattlesnake or terrapin

21: Craving

22: Conventional ideology

23: Building addition

24: Rising again

25: Enjoyed the Appalachian trail

Down
1: Most vitreous

2: Passports, e.g. (abbr.)

3: Use an S.O.S. pad

4: Microwaves for too long

5: Hotel room door opener

6: Lightning

7: Put a strain on

9: Lapwing gull

11: Three-horned dinosaur

14: Extravagant

15: Complicated

17: Blue book collector

18: Cornball

19: Scheme of furnishings

20: More or less

23: Man in a lodge





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