Crossword for Thu, 18/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Tree fluid

4: Indian lute

9: Tourney winner

14: Hardly hale

15: Inner self

16: Eagle's nest

17: Fade away

18: Nearly 90 degrees

19: Sty dwellers

20: Marine

23: Helios, to the Romans

24: Make beloved

25: Lumberjacks, e.g.

27: Bluto's assent

28: Beat-up jalopy

30: Slugs

33: Paces

37: Tournament exemption

38: Outshines

39: Routing term

40: Make laws

43: Radar reading

45: Stops bleeding

46: Metro maker

47: Run out of clothes?

50: Metamorphosis stages

54: 'What have we here?'

55: Offspring of Bold Ruler and Somethingroyal

59: Audacious

61: Riding attire

62: Life story, for short

63: Spine-tingling

64: Square things

65: Chicken-to-be

66: Musical symbols

67: Sharp aches

68: Place (a bet)

Down
1: Edge along

2: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

3: Answer a court charge

4: Strolls down the runway

5: Possible answer to 'Where are you?'

6: Hippodrome section

7: Last word in prayer

8: Exceptional

9: Stiff boxes?

10: Shape with cutting blows

11: Come to mind

12: Like some keys

13: Strips

21: Nursing need

22: Chews the fat

26: Moisten

28: Sticker prices

29: Repetitive routine

30: Unit of oil production, briefly

31: Spot

32: Part of a journey

33: Tour de force

34: Original sinner

35: Chart shape

36: In mourning

38: Chap

41: 'PUSH FOR ___'

42: Discounts considerably

43: Has a calming influence on

44: Rain cats and dogs

46: Detention at British boarding schools

47: Not intoxicated

48: '... and baby makes ___'

49: Bellows

51: Bad press?

52: Eurasian forest

53: Cheap cigar

56: Bloke

57: ___-tat

58: Black, to a bard

60: Pose for a pic





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