Crossword for Thu, 11/Oct/2012

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Across
1: Storm preceder

5: Family nickname

9: Gets ready

14: Table spread

15: Indian music

16: Eagle's nest

17: Gravy server

18: Keeps cold

19: 'The Sweetheart of ___ Chi'

20: Take back due to nonpayment

22: Summer ermine

23: Having star quality?

24: Olympic weapon

26: Workout sites

29: Scene from 'Cops,' e.g.

33: Scorches

37: 'Clumsy me!'

39: Fluish feeling

40: Old wives' tales and such

41: Cone droppers

42: Heavy book

43: Hgts.

44: Pond organism

45: Subatomic particle

46: Plan

48: Turn on an axis

50: Airhead

52: Magic word

57: Cake component

60: Kitchen utensil

63: About

64: Scottish hillside

65: Gather on a surface

66: 'Three on a ___' (1932 Bette Davis melodrama)

67: ___-tat

68: Apart from this

69: Ballet bends

70: Assist larcenously

71: Watermelon beginning

Down
1: Charmed animal?

2: Juicy plants

3: Bounded

4: DMV section?

5: Frightful

6: Speedway competition

7: Reason and Enlightenment

8: En ___ (all together)

9: Quarterback, at times

10: Say again

11: Thus

12: Strong cotton

13: Place for the catbird?

21: Slumps

25: Quarterback's call

27: Work hard

28: iPod contents

30: Qualities of the conceited

31: Akebono's sport

32: Adolescent

33: Attired

34: Logical flaw

35: They may be liberal

36: Where you live

38: Sound of laughter

41: Puff like a pooped pup

45: Marginally sufficient

47: Saddle bands

49: Cheerful

51: Referee, slangily

53: Lightens, as a burden

54: Mink wrap

55: By no means long-winded

56: Formed into a circle

57: Genie's place, in lore

58: Uptight, slangily

59: Bigfoot's Asian cousin

61: Excite, slangily

62: Scandal suffix





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