Crossword for Mon, 17/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Way off

5: Colombian coin

9: Hurried activity

13: Stag or bull, e.g.

14: Pioneer's vehicle

15: Wild about

16: How ER doctors give orders

18: Word on an octagon

19: Crude abode

20: Jazz instrument, briefly

21: Curly-leafed cabbage

22: First-aid devices

26: Put back on the job

28: Renege, slangily, with 'out'

29: Tag players

31: Observed

32: Turn tail

33: Loud bursts

35: Carpus

38: 'Not only that ...'

39: Set up

41: Like a wallflower

42: Annoying ones

44: Work with the hands

45: Come to pass

46: Scratching post users

48: Obtain

49: Upgrade the decor

50: Sense of taste

52: Ebbs

54: Stinger target

55: 'Shogun' sash

57: Lurid

58: Sesame starter?

59: Christening VIPs

64: Feature of a wicked witch

65: Decorative work

66: Icky stuff

67: Promontory

68: Possessing peepers

69: Antsy

Down
1: Band blaster

2: A long way off

3: Tap output

4: Send again

5: Spider in the kitchen

6: They're beaten in the kitchen

7: From the nearest star

8: Black gems

9: More speculative

10: Pure

11: Mink wrap

12: Anticipatory feeling

14: Quicker with quips

17: Daylight

22: Do away with

23: What a gardener might do

24: Outside consultants?

25: Like the surface of the moon

27: Shaped with an ax

30: Much teen talk

33: Orzo or ziti

34: Betray contempt

36: Disembodied spirit

37: Copy editor's quarries

40: Portal

43: Natural gifts

47: Cheap cigar

49: Play the wrong card, perhaps

50: Insect stages

51: Magazine with an African-American audience

53: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

54: Break, shake or take follower

56: Emulate a couch potato

60: Goalie's protection

61: Silent sayso

62: Dress fancily, with 'out'

63: The limit, for some





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