Crossword for Fri, 2/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Reduces in intensity

5: Some Hindu music pieces

10: Piercing tools

14: Hoof-on-pavement sound

15: Part of PABA

16: 'Hold your horses!'

17: Over the ___

18: Nitwits

20: Hopeful soul

22: Employs

23: Some votes

24: Neck line?

26: Odd pages

29: Confronts

32: Lots, sometimes

33: Some afternoon TV shows

34: Center of activity

36: Pronounce indistinctly

37: Popeye's buddies

38: Like a dangerous wire

39: Goalie's protection

40: Creepy 'Psycho' motel

41: Sharp aches

42: Bathrobe fabrics

44: Pendant

45: Word heard on December 31

46: Drop a line?

47: Zodiac transition points

50: Starred in high school sports

54: Destroy utterly

57: Take pleasure in

58: Many a retired thoroughbred

59: Act of kindness

60: Sesame starter?

61: Dresses nattily, with 'up'

62: Practices punching

63: Unused portion
Down
1: Sound on the rebound

2: Insignificant upturn

3: Frankenstein monster feature

4: Cause for tweezers and a magnifying glass

5: Disease for which Pasteur created the first vaccine

6: Off the mark

7: Surround

8: 'Not only that ...'

9: Turn on the waterworks

10: Expects

11: Sound from a fan

12: Unaccompanied

13: Back talk

19: Ostrich look-alikes

21: Meadow sounds

24: Brief chapters?

25: Sales staff members

26: Imitate Popeye

27: Razzle-dazzle

28: Unrefined

29: Sycamore trunks

30: Express gratitude to

31: Sudden forceful flow

33: Gorged

35: Gold medal-winning

37: Travel smoothly

38: 'The Dating Game' contestant

40: Grooming implement

41: Station

43: White water

44: Wine purchases

46: Stench

47: Section in the credits

48: Golden Rule preposition

49: Tight-fitting

50: Pumice source

51: No longer green

52: Barely manages, with 'out'

53: Fender flaw

55: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

56: Full circle, on the track




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