Cross word.

• Author: Mellor, Myles

January/February 2005

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Across

1. Market worth, broadly speaking (2 words)

10. Spartan money?

11. Short-term investors (4 words)

13. Tiger Woods' starting point

14. Giver

16. SEP or SIMPLE?

17. Bankers' opportunities, home buyers' necessities?

19. "The greatest" boxer

20. Commodity category

22. Spanish for already

23. Finales

25. What every good CFO has to say sometimes!

27. ____ value: the value of an option if it were to expire immediately with the underlying stock at its current price

30. Credit score reporter

33. Twosome

34. Unpleasant

35. "____ rush in where angels fear to tread"

37. NFL Vikings locale

38. Soldiers

40. Postponed, a motion for example

44. Financial planning (abbr.)

45. Thanksgiving feast (2 words)

48. Operations, for short

50. Apprenticed for a position

52. In reference to

53. Gives the nod to

55. Expiration, financially

56. ____ money: given to show good faith

    Down

1. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization

2. Course expenses (2 words)

3. Form accompaying an insurance policy that alters the policy's terms or coverage

4. Professional (abbr.)

5. Important bank account digits (2 words)

6. Loan with no principal payments (2 words)

7. Profitably

8. Margin

9. Makes less difficult

12. ____ sheet

15. Bullfighter's cry

18. Ronald's wife

20. Oklahoma town

21. Profit

24. Someone who transfers an interest

26. Cayman Islands as an account location, for example

28. Complain

29. Possessive pronoun

31. Insertion order, for short

32. AW__(deserted one's post)

36. Workers' stop-page

39. Printer maker

41. Glacial state

42. SEC document transmitter (abbr.)

43. Pay____ (it makes an investigation worth-while)

44. Worry over

46. Grammatical word form

47. Send out

49. Pod dweller

51. Color

53. ____ the run

54. Social Security

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