Crosswords/2005/February/11

Quick crossword

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Across

6. Theatre floor (5)

9. Moving staircases (10)

10. Practice (esp. athletic) (5)

11. Elastic connective tissue (9)

13. Boarding house for dogs (7)

16. Cleansing agent (4)

18. Short stop (5)

20. US/UK government division (6)

21. Instruct (5)

22. Yttrium oxide (6)

23. Catholic religious person (5)

24. Before morning (4)

26. Low wage (colloq.) (7)

30. Tour; diversionary journey (9)

31. Not sparkling (5)

32. Bicycle steering device (8)

33. Decorate (5)

Down

1. Retrieve (5)

2. Neckwear (5)

3. Oval (7)

4. Canadian capital (6)

5. Rivulet (5)

7. Hairy spider (9)

8. Decapitation device (10)

14. Refers to members of a group one by one (4)

15. Handled cruelly or abusively (10)

17. Tartan (5)

19. Rotating watering device (9)

21. Stretched tightly (4)

23. Underwater breathing device (7)

25. Place where video games are played (6)

27. Type of car (5)

28. Huygens probe visited this moon 2005 (5)

29. Grind teeth (5)

Answers tomorrow.

Yesterday's solution

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