Crossword for Sun, 17/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Old footwear

6: Tongues do it

9: Jingle writer, perhaps

14: Pass out

15: Get going

16: Crystal-lined rock

17: Shore

19: Related to vision

20: Methodology (abbr.)

21: Bear witness

23: Onion's cousin

24: Employs

25: Lab monkey

27: Seat of power

30: South Beach, e.g.

31: Bounder

32: 'Hold your horses!'

35: Musical symbols

39: Palindromic preposition

40: In a tangle

42: Pigeon patter

43: Come after

45: Part of a hammer head

46: Storm particles

47: St. Louis gridders

49: Musical saw sounds

51: Pie fight sound effects

54: Deflect

56: Course of action

57: Evening affair

59: '___ Loves You'

62: Azure gemstone

64: Agreement

66: Magazine copy

67: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

68: Got in shape, with 'up'

69: Motif

70: Avg.

71: Iditarod entries
Down
1: Tired adages

2: 'Hamlet,' for example

3: Hgts.

4: Water temperature 'gauge'

5: Variety

6: ___ Sands National Monument

7: Helpers

8: Turns to the right

9: In the past

10: Exhaust

11: Insignificant specks

12: 'Farewell, François!'

13: Guitar parts

18: Here and there

22: Cycle starter

24: Garden tool

26: Bunch of bulls

27: Family follower?

28: Highway hooter

29: Montreal streets

30: Either of the racing Earnhardts

33: Chance occurrences

34: Unwrought iron

36: Read quickly

37: Use a grasping device at the barbecue

38: Repairs the outfield

40: Place for the catbird?

41: Menu choice

44: Controversial energy source

46: Verbalize

48: Mag. submissions

50: Twists to pull free

51: Take off

52: Gentle pool sound

53: Expire

54: Embroidery loop

55: Curvilinear

58: Galley propellers

59: Trig ratio

60: Broke ground, perhaps

61: Budgets make them meet

63: Attend

65: Helios, to the Romans




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