Crossword for Thu, 16/Sep/2010

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Across
1: Brake neighbor

4: They may be liberal

8: Behaves

12: Turn on an axis

13: 'Far out!'

14: Like the best flushes

16: Zippo

17: Body of an organism

18: Like a stale joke

19: Seed coverings

21: Secretarial fill-in

23: Tip for a casino dealer

24: Obtain

25: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

27: Balaam's mount

29: Niven's 'Casino Royale' role

30: Strike

31: Tap output

34: Buttered up?

37: Storm particles

38: Beefeater, e.g.

39: Freshly

40: Go down

41: Transmit

42: Menlo Park monogram

43: Up to the task

45: Balanced states

47: Man in a lodge

48: Place (a bet)

49: Like most colleges

50: Verbalize

51: Cocktail hour spread

52: Biretta or beret

55: Fail to include

58: Hot tubs

60: Mink wrap

62: Bullriding venue

64: 'Them' insects

66: Card pack foursome

67: Quite high

68: Proofreader's mark

69: Low-quality diamond

70: Shaker contents

71: Did in, old-style

72: Picked up a lap
Down
1: Dirty look

2: Fearful request by the IRS, to some

3: Flippered fish fancier

4: Rm. coolers

5: Deeply embedded

6: Scholarly books

7: Loud door sound

8: Eyebrow shape

9: Geezers

10: Rookie

11: Hit bottom

12: Glitch

15: Old soap ingredient

20: Fruit for flavoring gin

22: Annoyance

26: Wrap up

28: Avg.

29: Incidentally, in Netspeak

30: Ring toss item?

31: Reason and Enlightenment

32: Pat response

33: Budgets make them meet

34: Diminish

35: Uptight, slangily

36: Run for

37: Attend

40: Devious

41: In mourning

43: In the manner of

44: Auto shop compartments

45: Barfly

46: Golf ball pegs

49: Fairy tale setting

50: Iron alloy

51: Committee

52: Post-skiing beverage, for some

53: Tornado siren, e.g.

54: Pain in the neck

55: Surgery sites, briefly

56: Witticisms

57: Brainwave

59: Hippies' homes

61: Filing aids

63: Choose

65: Stitch up




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