Crossword for Sun, 13/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Crone

4: Lincoln loc.

7: Upper hand

11: Overwhelmed

13: Dot on a monitor

15: Quilting parties

16: Bowling alley

17: Send to Siberia

18: Break the ___

19: Fashionable doggy?

22: Garbage bag closer

23: Parlor pieces

24: Legit

26: Picked up a lap

27: Six-line poem

29: Classic sports car, informally

32: Russian villa

34: 'Git!'

37: Gives the heave-ho

39: Flies high

41: Story by Chaucer

42: Flat rates?

44: Match play?

46: Links tee

47: Imbibe to excess

49: Bounce up and down

51: Boom box

53: Cut down

57: Get going

58: Foundation

61: In a competent way

63: Jeweler's eyeglass

64: Ditty

65: Strategem

66: From the nearest star

67: Atlantic food fish

68: Potato chip maker

69: Take wing

70: 'To each ___ own'

Down
1: Cuts short

2: Clued in

3: French writer of ''The Balcony''

4: Vetoes

5: Stage direction

6: Hit hard

7: Fall off, as the tide

8: Car without brakes, say

9: Spirit in a bottle

10: Gravelly glacial ridge

12: Fender bender nicks

13: They were spent in Spain

14: Welsh emblems

20: More than slow, in retail

21: Goes bad

25: Quakers or Shakers

27: Wall Street commodity

28: Dumbo's 'wings'

29: Preserves preserver

30: Fireman's tool

31: In a polite way

33: Brat's stocking stuffer

35: Tap output

36: Actress Ryan

38: Recipe direction

40: Less loaded

43: What some writers work on

45: Acknowledges silently

48: Forms a puddle

50: Joke targets

51: Knitted wrap

52: Inner legbone

53: Make good on a debt

54: Redact

55: Weariness

56: Vast extents

59: Hit the ___ (get mad)

60: Without value

62: 'Sure thing!'





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