Crossword.

OCTOBER 2010

Across

1 Period of slow economic growth and high unemployment

8 Closely watched national economic statistic

10 Go public with

11 The "I" thing

13 Business on the Web

14 Wealthy emirate

15 American Express, for short

17 Note well

18 NBC show

19 Old Subaru letters

21 Civil war general

22 See 1 down

24 Give him the__(go-ahead)

25 Point where the market moves away from its usual range or trading pattern (2 words)

26 Yo-Yo, cellist

27 Gold symbol

28 Ford or Buick

29 Periods where stocks are stuck in a trading range

34 Liter__(intellectuals)

35 Russian river

36 Getting rich quick (4 words)

39 Not clever

42 Commits money to (2 words)

47 Older than Jr.

48 Bard's nightfall

49 __odds with

50 Some bills

51 Enterprising or ambitious drive (4 words)

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Down

1 Period of extravagant buying (goes with 22 across)

2 Embraced

3 Matthew and Son, for example (2 words)

4 Tell a whopper

5 Get financing (3 words)

6 Hypothesis

7 Nancy Drew's beau

8 Swallow up

9 Battles between rival companies (2 words)

12 Starter's need

16 Big show

20 Fundamental in business dealings

22 Uncontrolled slide

23 "__tu, Brute" Julius Caesar

26 Chess piece, in a way

27 Dead against

28 Part of a spreadsheet

30 Type of floor

31 International finance group, abbr.

32 Times Square displays

33 Total

37 First name of a rich emirate

38 Environmental treaty

40 Acquire

41 Unit of force

42 Add money to the pot

43 Yes!

44 Vast amount

45 Wayside stop

46 License plate sticker

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