Solution:

Double definitions only

(the ideal clue type)

Created by Linda Carson (c)2000. To go back to the puzzle, click here.

Across: 5 Bar, 6 Crewcut, 8 Lima, 9 Degree, 10 Yanks, 12 Rebus, 15 Atomic, 17 Gore, 19 Inkwell, 20 Amp.

Down: 1 Taxi, 2 Pride, 3 Twig, 4 Bureau, 7 Bank, 11 Acting, 13 Eggs, 14 Scale, 16 Mows, 18 Rams.

Why, you ask, are these the answers?

Across: 5 Bar the bar, 6 Crew cut (out) to get crewcut, 8 Lima (beans) in Lima, Peru, 9 (College) degree for degree (on thermometer), 10 Yanks the Yanks (Yankees), 12 Rebus, re-bus, 15 tiny, nuclear, 17 if you (a bull) gore someone, you get a lot of gore, 19 Dip your pen in an inkwell to ink well, 20 The amp(lifier) needs an amp (more like many amps!).

Down: 1 Taxi dancer goes home in a taxi, 2 Pride of the pride of lions, 3 Did you twig to this twig?, 4 Bureau (chest of drawers) bureau (like the FBI), 7 Bank on it, your bank, 11 The acting (temp) president is acting silly, 13 Eggs on the eggs, 14 Scale is series of notes, which climb or scale, 16 Mows the lawn, fills the mows, 18 rams the rams.