Crosswords/2005/April/2

Quick crossword

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Across

2. Breast bone (7)

8. Midday (4)

9. Refrigerator ancestor (6)

10. Describing a diluted solution (7)

11. Place to sit (4)

12. A road (6)

16. A metal (6)

19. Fable (4)

21. Aquatic weeds (5)

22. A nonmetal (7)

23. Break the rules (5)

24. Box (5)

25. A stored collection (7)

26. Type of pig meat (5)

27. Joke (4)

29. Sewing tool (6)

32. Permitted room to move (6)

36. Chamber (4)

37. Without satisfactory utility (7)

38. Reflective surface (6)

39. Seeing organs (4)

40. Tasty (5)

Down

1. Solitary (6)

2. Grab (6)

3. To supply (5)

4. Hanging knot (5)

5. Fail to hit (4)

6. Expensive (4)

7. At the center of an apple (4)

13. Deep meditative state (6)

14. Cut shallowly a design or words (7)

15. Topic (5)

17. Bird with large beak (7)

18. Sit back (7)

20. Molasses (7)

22. Verse (6)

23. Secret group, said not to exist (5)

27. Jumper, overcoat (6)

28. Minor rainfall (6)

30. Antagonist (5)

31. Ideal, of society, self, etc. (5)

33. Egress (4)

34. Telegraph (4)

35. Circular tent (4)

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Yesterday's solution

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