Crossword for Tue, 12/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Puzzle piece

5: Village People's genre

10: Atlantic food fish

14: Thpeak like thith

15: Asian caregivers

16: State tree of Maine

17: Keeps cold

18: Rolls down the runway

19: Parade spoiler

20: Dandy's topper

22: Imbeciles

24: Like many a pad of paper

26: Dr. No, to Bond

27: Wrapped garment

30: Quotation at the start of a chapter

35: Pollster's detection

36: Bundles of hay

37: Veneer layer

38: Long time

39: Helpers

40: St. Louis gridder

41: ___ de mer (seasickness)

42: Struck, with the patella

43: Often-pulled muscle

45: Perfect proportion

47: Demons

48: Building wing

49: Viscounts' superiors

51: Breakout

54: Neoterics

58: Spooks' sounds

59: Religious ceremonies

62: Rock, scissors, or paper

63: Cottonseed source

64: That's what happens

65: Extinct flightless bird

66: Hang around

67: Twosomes

68: Place at an angle
Down
1: Curtail

2: Head hunters?

3: One working with Linux, e.g.

4: Greek vowel

5: Carbon 14 job

6: Reputation in society

7: Jazz instrument, briefly

8: McBride of 'Boston Public'

9: Hardens into bone

10: More nimble

11: 'I'm history!'

12: Single thing

13: Cons' confines

21: Empty talk

23: Follows persistently

25: Shooter who seldom misses

27: Edible rhubarb parts

28: Duds

29: Bailiwick

31: Responded 'Not guilty'

32: Cookwear

33: Crossbarred pattern

34: Ditties for the deity

36: Funeral stand

39: Like caribou

42: Sushi wrap

43: Brighten

44: E-mails anew

46: Trifling

47: Makes translucent

50: Change for the better

51: Reduces in intensity

52: Chimney sweep's target

53: Root beer alternative

55: Castle in a board game

56: Without a stitch

57: Frosty's composition

60: Batman foe Poison ___

61: Afternoon brew




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