Crossword for Wed, 12/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Start to mature?

4: Gets ready

9: Savanna predators

14: Coat of many colors?

15: First two-time, and first female, Nobelist

16: Feedback

17: Dispersed

19: Off the wall

20: Words with precedent

21: Seat belt, e.g.

23: At attention

25: Bearings

29: Chimpanzee's hoot

31: Divided ahead of time

32: Gave a false account of

38: Refute

39: Peak stat

40: Baby bean plants

43: Feel unwell

44: Ground corn

46: Laziness

48: Most minimal

51: Levy

52: Some deep-sea denizens

56: Like a primer

60: Braid relative

62: Sleeveless outer garment

63: Rose oil

66: Attention-grabbing

68: Wall Street commodity

69: Enjoy a bed

70: Welcoming gift on Maui

71: Grape centers

72: Monster with a head for multiplication and then some

73: Picked up a lap
Down
1: Sheriff's band

2: Kitchen gadget

3: Fill with joy

4: Per hundred (Abbr.)

5: Montreal streets

6: Proved to be human

7: Morsel

8: Rock garden creeper

9: Unlike a plane

10: Stored in memory?

11: Choose

12: Kook

13: Pig's digs

18: Mexican cuisine

22: One's good name, briefly

24: Little ones

26: Dolphins' home

27: Mysterious

28: Manner of performance

30: Come to pass

32: Cha-cha cousin

33: Intestinal

34: Get going

35: Cycle starter

36: Many, many moons

37: Bomb that's a bomb

41: Little one

42: Hunk of cheese

45: It's spotted in the jungle

47: On the nose

49: Church toppers

50: Harbor helper

53: Secret store

54: Ahead of schedule

55: Bred winners?

57: Jib and spanker

58: Breathing problem

59: On the up-and-up

61: Dirty look

63: Balaam's mount

64: Pooh's middle name?

65: Menlo Park monogram

67: Resort hotel




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