Crossword for Mon, 18/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Vegetates

6: All tucked in

10: Addition problems

14: High-ranking Boy Scout

15: Scottish hillside

16: Elec., e.g.

17: No-nonsense

18: Pumice source

19: Typographic measure

20: Shook a fist at, e.g.

22: Sparkle

23: Map abbr.

24: Least prevalent

26: Photo ___ (campaign events)

29: Right, on the map

32: Rm. coolers

33: Total before deductions

35: Trailblazed

40: Hit high in the air

41: Silver Ghost, for short

42: Have the nerve

43: Shoulder board (Var.)

45: Hose hue

46: Links tee

47: Soft drink

49: Silent sayso

50: Accumulated wealth

54: Tag players

56: In the thick of

57: Lively Italian folk dance

63: Gondolier gear

64: Math subj.

65: Olympic weapons

66: Hematite and galena

67: Very top

68: Last inning, usually

69: Digs of twigs

70: Let fall

71: Impudent
Down
1: For fear that

2: Sworn statement

3: Emulsifying agent

4: Aviator

5: Has a calming influence on

6: Up to the task

7: Breakfast grain

8: Roof edges

9: Delivers the joke with a straight face

10: Displace

11: Handy

12: Aluminum silicate minerals

13: Bias, in reporting

21: Afternoon brew

25: Star pitcher

26: Get an eyeful

27: Stage piece

28: Soft seat

30: Position

31: Jousting bouts

34: Most moronic

36: Table spread

37: Parade spoiler

38: Thus

39: Property title

41: Competitions between banks?

44: '___ me think about it'

45: Wooden reinforcing strips

48: Tumultuous noise

50: Food fowl

51: Love, Italian style

52: Mounds

53: Hardwood tree

55: Brown pigment

58: Frost's frost

59: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

60: It may zoom in or out

61: 'Shall we?' response

62: Like burnt briquettes




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