Crosswords/2005/February/14

Quick crossword

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Across

4. Not young (3)

8. A device to keep rowing paddles slipping (7)

9. Very angry (5)

10. Toboggan (4)

12. In a concessive and sorry manner (10)

13. Mathematically thorough (8)

15. Cows, for one (6)

17. Not aesthetic structure (7)

19. Throat tissues (7)

21. Place pitch upon (6)

23. Olive-like bush (8)

26. Digestion and energy creating processes in the human body (10)

27. Joint (4)

29. Musical direction not to play (5)

30. Turned (7)

31. Communicate via speech (3)

Down

1. Calm and collected (4)

2. Poke (4)

3. Edible tuber (6)

4. Sea north of Sakhalin (7)

5. Someone once married (8)

6. Today, _________'_ day (8'1)

7. Automatically call a number again (6)

10. Glut (7)

11. Reproductive half (3)

14. The honoring of an occasion or custom (10)

16. Support (7)

18. British soldiers (esp. in the US) (8)

20. Shaping of hedges, bushes (7)

22. Representatives (6)

24. Hostility (6)

25. Brown (3)

27. Japanese instrument (4)

28. Small whirlpool (4)

Answers tomorrow.

Yesterday's solution

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