Crossword for Sun, 16/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Proper niche

6: Confident to an extreme

10: Pepper spray alternative

14: True to the cause

15: Soft drink nut

16: ___ nitrate

17: Hospital staff cuts?

19: Span's inches

20: They were spent in Spain

21: Mouthed but unspoken

23: Birth certificate notation

24: At attention

25: Reduces in intensity

28: November winners

31: 9 - 5, e.g.

32: Set straight

34: Fish tank plant life

36: Check

39: Pertaining to the heart and lungs

42: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

43: ___ de menthe

44: Prima ___

45: Corkscrew-tailed animal

46: Kind of talk

48: Fishing gear

49: Citified

52: Van Gogh's love offering

54: Crowd disperser

57: Rummy relative

61: Sailors

62: Like Stonehenge

64: Upper hand

65: Ever so proper

66: Word before wash or organ

67: Deli loaves

68: Rational

69: Chichi
Down
1: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

2: Run gracefully

3: Motion-carrying votes

4: Showed affection, in a way

5: Fill with joy

6: Goes downhill fast?

7: It's heard in a herd

8: Arm bone

9: Fight for breath

10: Country estates

11: Ammonia compound

12: One with a critical attitude

13: Campaign poster plea

18: Stand on the corner?

22: Concerning this

25: Inscribe with acid

26: Scottish hillside

27: Raymond of 'Perry Mason'

29: Back of the neck

30: Stop hitting?

31: Noah's second son

33: Preparing carrots, perhaps

35: Tickled-pink feeling

36: Folded food

37: Like the Atacama

38: Tournament advantages

40: Ending of many WWW addresses

41: Story teller

45: Analyzes grammatically

47: Sound of laughter

49: Absolute, as nonsense

50: Poised for action

51: River transport

53: Inner self

55: Band boxes?

56: Antitoxins

57: Arrived

58: Bolted

59: Small birds

60: Throbbing

63: Beefeater, e.g.




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