Crossword for Mon, 16/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Little lie

4: Line

8: Group of things

13: Roman date

15: Flightless bird

16: Become accustomed

17: Try again

19: Add up

20: Dowager

21: Droop

23: Crummy place

24: Take for granted

25: Musclebound brute

27: Place to buy smoked meats

34: Pumps up

37: Less likely to offend

38: Soup veggie

39: Wrench, e.g.

40: Roles

41: Storm preceder

42: Harbor helper

43: Gold dealer's unit

44: No longer in vogue

45: Ones who tell you when your slip is showing?

48: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

49: It needs to be picked up

53: Blubber

56: She may get sheared

59: Loaded with options

60: Caustic

62: Followers

64: Nearly 90 degrees

65: Softens, as lights

66: Like some straits

67: Brit that made heads roll

68: Acct. summary

69: Siamese or Persian

Down
1: Terra ___

2: Think tank output

3: Finishes ahead of

4: Battlement opening

5: Electrical unit

6: Sales staff members

7: Statistics

8: Byte fraction

9: Battery terminals

10: Bishop Desmond

11: Study in a panic

12: Household staff

14: Viennese pastry

18: Scholarly books

22: Garden swingers

26: A pop

28: Foolish

29: About

30: Performed on stage

31: Hot tubs

32: They get into sushi

33: Application form blank

34: URL opener

35: Thy, nowadays

36: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

40: Prize money

41: Moved to protect the king

43: Not right

44: Buttinsky

46: More sebaceous

47: Like Bart, among the Simpson siblings

50: Officer's jacket

51: Old newsboy's call

52: Put a counter to zero

53: Celebration

54: Feel compassion

55: Small songbird

57: Money rolls

58: Browser function

61: Unproductive

63: 'I wonder...'





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