Crosswords/2005/February/14

February 14, 2005

Quick crossword
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Across
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 * 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)
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Down
Answers tomorrow.
 * 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)
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