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Crossword Puzzle Aug 30, 2007

This Week's Puzzle

Uncanny X-Word (August 30)

by Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS

1. Soccer mom's spouse
10. Where speedometer's needles rest
13. Ticket counter request
14. Father fig.?
15. Lily Allen or Amy Winehouse, say
16. Hwy.
17. Earn
18. Professor X's first name in X-Men
20. Crooks
23. 1951 computer
24. From the top
25. X-Men villain
26. Day ___
27. Type of sugar
29. Sch. session
30. Rags
32. Fill
33. Concert memento
34. Fries up
36. "Look! Over there!"
37. Wi-Fi spot
38. Blemish
39. Office communiqués
44. Compass pt.
45. Coastal waters
46. Sex-ed topic
47. Ameriqué

DOWN

1. Letter run
2. "I'll take that as ___"
3. Cal. abbr.
4. The Two Cultures author
5. Men in Black extra
6. Monthly expenses
7. Punk rock band ___ Nasty
8. Attracted to nobody
9. Turn topsy-turvy
10. Comes to?
11. Private chat
12. Wins out in the end
19. Actor Diesel
20. Track and field competitor's stat
21. Chess pawn maneuver
22. Suited up like a Hells Angel
25. Soldier cops
27. Carmen author
28. Ad with the phrase "Draw Me"
31. Connection
32. Its slogan is "Think. Feel. Drive."
34. Belt (out)
35. Glows
40. NYC subway inits.
41. Band with the 2007 album Year Zero, for short
42. Agnus ___
43. Palm Sunday mount

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