Crossword.

• Author: Mellor, Myles

January/February 2007

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Across

1. Trader betting on a loss (2 words)

9. Yes, captain

10. Electrically charged particle

11. Feeling

14. Heavily attack verbally

18. Manager of a newspaper

20. "___ tu, Brute" from Julius Caesar

21. Garden of temptation

22. Accounting entries

23. Wall or Sesame

25. New Orleans (2 words)

27. Cheats

29. Equifax abbr.

31. Monetary policy setters (goes with 37 across)

33. Type of sloth

34. Cry for help

36. Set, rates for example

37. See 31 across

40. Russell Crowe's middle name, or savings account

41. Philosopher suffix

42. French wine

43. Business segments (2 words)

46. Under ___ ___ (close call!)

49. Stress results

50. Time for the books to be inspected (2 words)

52. Make a mistake

54. Confidentiality agreements

55. New York time

57. Eggs

59. What you do with tape (4 words)

64. Just before

65. Economist Smith

    Down

1. The reason companies employ account managers (2 words)

2. Hotel chain

3. Original manufacturer's product

4. Psychiatrist's diagnosis for the US economy? (3 words-goes with 32 down)

5. Deceive

6. Goes with behold

7. Benchmark for a good executive? (2 words)

8. Plunder

11. Golden touch-er

12. "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" singer

13. Medicos

15. Spelling test

16. Established

17. Shelby locale

19. Discounts or thinking?

22. Montecristo, for example

24. Running back, for short

26. What a losing team thinks of (2 words)

28. Excel chart

30. On behalf of

32. See 4 down

33. States

35. Conflicting schedule possibility? (2 words)

38. From that time

39. Add to the system

44. Billiard striker

45. Mistake

47. Type of mortgage loan

48. Word to the ____

51. Technology Transfer Fund, abbr.

53. Small___ (stock group)

56. Craze

58. Roman 6

60. Morning time

61. Musical scale note

62. Semiannual, for short

63. Trademark, abbr.

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