Crossword for Thu, 15/May/2008

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Across
1: Dance part?

4: Amorphous lump

8: Riffraff

12: Quoits target

13: What predators do

14: Secret store

15: Not tied up

17: Minor role

18: Save from a flood, say

19: Tally keepers

21: Long hauls

22: Knot-tying sites

24: Rumormonger

26: Interest

30: Tick off

33: Truth ___ (interrogation drug)

35: Extreme hardship

36: Funeral stand

38: Sat tight

40: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

41: Nice thoughts

43: Had a virus, say

45: Place for P.E.

46: Had a premonition

48: Handrail support

50: Slog

52: Flat-topped hills

56: High and low

59: Sleeveless cloak

60: Small purchase of paper

61: Attachment

64: Stress symptom, perhaps

65: Brandish

66: Streaking, once

67: Black-and-white divers

68: Salacious

69: Whimsical

Down
1: Plan a course

2: Show protectiveness

3: Put down

4: Scottish hillside

5: Tennis shot

6: Temple student

7: Divinely favored

8: 'We Built This City' group

9: Arrived

10: One working with Linux, e.g.

11: Conductance units

13: Assets

14: Point maker

16: Repulsive

20: Hansom vehicle

22: Well-lit lobbies

23: Exalting

25: Lincoln loc.

27: Bug-eyed

28: Sluggish

29: Word on a gift tag

30: Sacred bird of Egypt

31: Bridle path excursion

32: Peachy

34: Free-for-all

37: Returns to original condition

39: Condensation phenomenon

42: Waitron

44: Ask peremptorily

47: Scheduled

49: Impart temporarily

51: Speech mannerism

53: Body of military officers

54: Fish tank plant life

55: Shabby-looking

56: Water color

57: Pip

58: Beat thoroughly

59: Merge

62: Chart shape

63: 'Treasure Island' pirate





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