December 2009.

• Position: Crossword

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Across

1 Senate Finance Committee chair

4 Google founder

8 Clippers' state

11 Pleads the 5th? (2 words)

14 Standards

15 Competition laws

17 Recruiter

18 Millihenry, for short

19 Work over the deal again

22 Central

24 Till bill

25 Reversal of stock prices

27 He left BofA over Merrill bonuses

29 Time period, for short

30 Sicilian smoker

31 Next in line?

33 Pelosi and Boxer

34 Largest democracy in the world

36 Actress Long

39 CT+ME+MA+NH+RI+VT

40 Baseball V.I.P.'s

41 Preceding period

43 Kind of parachute?

45 This government revenue source was recently raised in California (2 words)

48 Checked garment

49 Arrangements of machines and equipment involved in the manufacturing processes (2 words)

53 Add

54 HP's big profit source

55 Brain scan, abbr.

56 Clean

57 Marine eagle

58 Thesis

Down

1 Financing

2 Not extended, as a contract

3 Fred Smith's rival

5 Statistician in insurance

6 Shine like gold

7 Snack

8 They lessen the effects of hardship

9 Prone

10 Selling goods for another

12 Smith or Bojangle

13 G-20 get togethers (2 words)

16 Blanc's opposite

17 Culture studies, for short

20 Mariner's compass direction

21 LSE subj.

23 CSI stuff

26 Casual attire

28 Elimination of some competing business in times of declining sales

32 Edges

33 Roosevelt's coin

35 Matrix character

37 In fun (3 words)

38 Messages, in a way

42 Low-lying area

44 Plunders

46 Irving Berlin's "Blue__"

47 Cookbook direction

49 Add to the expense account

50 Pixel maybe

51 Hostel

52 Loser at Antietam

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