Crossword for Tue, 15/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Rural landing place

6: Brat's stocking stuffer

10: Eyes

14: Self-esteem

15: Up to the task

16: Manipulate, as the books

17: Spot for a mike

18: State tree of Maine

19: Ankles, anatomically

20: High-minded

22: Tributes in verse

23: Past and present

24: Bloke

26: Human trunk

29: They may be slapped on

33: Got out of Dodge

37: Constricting snake

38: Swap shop transaction

39: Take on cargo

40: Confuse

42: Dubai VIP

43: Make spoony

45: Like cherries jubilee

46: Words with precedent

47: Mingle in

48: Copy editor's quarries

50: A or B, in personalities

52: ___ offender

57: Pond organism

60: Contaminate

63: Turns to the right

64: Span's inches

65: Mountain climber's spike

66: Holiday nights

67: Fellow, slangily

68: That's what happens

69: Levee

70: All over the place

71: Force units

Down
1: Take off

2: Make a swap

3: Mature

4: Think tank output

5: BB, e.g.

6: Mortarboards

7: Article that may list survivors

8: Alloy used in making magnets

9: Bloodsucker

10: Some deep-sea denizens

11: Word in seven Hope titles

12: Tree trunk

13: Goes downhill fast?

21: Line on a weather map

25: Star pitcher

27: Abacus part

28: In a melancholy manner

30: Fortune companion

31: Act the butterfly

32: Antitoxins

33: Leaping insect

34: Bring in

35: Cheese with a red coat

36: After-dinner drink

38: 'Your mother wears army boots!,' for one

41: Muhammad Ali a.k.a. 'The Louisville ___'

44: Kind of moron?

48: Dullness

49: Permeated

51: Black-and-white zoo attraction

53: Lav

54: Word with worm or moth

55: Square things

56: Pitched things

57: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

58: Impose, as a tax

59: Nerd's friend

61: Annul

62: Onion's cousin





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