Crossword for Thu, 17/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Root beer alternative

5: Grocery shopper's reference

9: Arm bone

13: Sesame starter?

14: Tool used for making holes

15: Tide type

16: 'Bunnies' under the bed

17: Magazine with an African-American audience

18: Sleeveless outer garment

19: Helper

21: Fatigued, in a way

22: Wild pigs

23: Give the slip to

24: Dialects of a region

27: Belt beepers

29: Haut ___ (high society)

30: Rough projections

32: Sis or bro

34: Piece of strategy

35: Humans

36: Quaker's address

37: Absorb, with 'up'

38: Marriage announcement

39: Hose hue

40: Races with hand-offs

42: Fiddle

43: Fixes

44: Insignificant sort

46: Flimflams

48: Coordination centers

52: Earring spot

53: About a drop

54: Any day now

55: Just

56: These can be checkered

57: Drink to excess

58: Tournament advantages

59: Thin-bladed tools

60: Hearty meal
Down
1: Pas de deux conclusion

2: Important work

3: Minus

4: Disease-fighting protein

5: Lung-related

6: 1990 Best Actor Jeremy

7: On cloud nine

8: 'Don't give up!'

9: Remove from the crate

10: Management skill

11: Back of the neck

12: Mocked by imitating

14: Obsolete VCRs

20: Unspecified amount

21: Runs for one's life?

23: Vies for the break, in billiards

24: Mischief-makers

25: Sorrow

26: Unsuitable for surgery

27: Bosom buddies

28: Prolonged attack

30: Jailbirds

31: Turn tail

33: Ballpark beverage

35: Simon ___

36: Teapot dwellers?

38: Bellhop's burdens

39: Insulting remark

41: English gobs

42: Comes down hard

44: On pins and needles

45: Court orders

46: Neatnik's nemesis

47: Rabbit fur

48: 'I'm history!'

49: Rioter's illegal take

50: Run gracefully

51: Freshly

53: Speed meas.




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