Crossword for Thu, 18/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Cul-de-___ (dead end roads)

5: Article that may list survivors

9: Turkey

13: Just one of those things

14: Noted Nehi drinker of TV

16: Wander

17: 'Don't stop'

18: Payola, e.g.

19: Sparkle

20: Having the same score as

22: Butlers' prompts

24: Brat's stocking stuffer

26: Makes level

27: Auto frame

30: Stable sounds

34: Away from the office

35: Still life fruits

38: Song of tribute

39: Porn

41: Trades

43: Fly alone

44: Edible tubers

46: Former Iranian rulers

48: Pigeon patter

49: Goes furtively

51: Like the Taipei 101 skyscraper

53: Indian lute

56: Persuade, with 'over'

57: Dispersed

61: Group of things

64: Unresisting

65: About a drop

67: Burro bellow

68: State peremptorily

69: Allay by satisfying

70: Thpeak like thith

71: Deep desires

72: Did in, old-style

73: Sound on the rebound

Down
1: Acct. summary

2: Sailor's greeting

3: Lampoon

4: Certain secretaries

5: Eyeball

6: Minstrel poet

7: Preceder of box or light, in slang

8: Fifer's drum

9: Flowers of the iris family

10: Take it easy

11: Football's contour

12: Cons' confines

15: Later showing

21: Fight for breath

23: Answering-machine sound

25: Tells a whopper

27: Sticker prices

28: Earthling

29: Tired adages

31: Like Ptolemy's universe

32: Circles of angels

33: High-hatter

36: Sound of a fan

37: Tiff

40: Some ovens, at times

42: Layered haircut

45: Revue segment

47: Hunk of cheese

50: Edible rhubarb parts

52: Apt

54: Seed coverings

55: Kidney-related

57: Hang around

58: Spelunker's milieu

59: Last word in prayer

60: Flood-preventing embankment

62: Johnny with a guitar

63: Shot in the arm

66: Kitten's cry





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