Crossword for Thu, 2/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Way off

5: What some writers work on

9: Come to mind

14: Bounder

15: Thus

16: Milquetoasts

17: Pone, usually

19: Let on

20: Rodin work

21: Kind of calendar

23: Had a bite

24: Bearded African grazer

26: Knitted garment

28: Reduces

32: Players may up it

33: Ponder

34: Libel, for instance

36: Eyes

39: Peacemaker's prize

40: Cone droppers

41: Stead

42: Injure

43: A pink one means trouble

44: Bathe

45: Some intestinal divisions

47: Indelicately

50: Through and through

53: Food scrap

54: Electrical unit

55: Indian housemaid

57: Least polite

62: What pillboxes lack

64: Zap over

66: Spine-tingling

67: Low cart

68: At all

69: Rod companions

70: Scatters seeds

71: Stitched
Down
1: Circle sections

2: It's not good to have in one's mouth

3: Mystique

4: Monthly payment, for many

5: Unruffled

6: Start to mature?

7: Quaint oath

8: Things to crack

9: Rouse

10: Free

11: Not pertinent

12: Ill will

13: Any acetate, chemically

18: Creepy-crawlies

22: Whacks

25: '___ Tomorrow' (Sammy Kaye)

27: Ring-shaped coral islands

28: Oahu bash

29: Desk

30: Drift down to the bottom

31: Kind of boom

33: Speed meas.

35: Office copy, commonly

37: Large group

38: Take to court

40: Religious song

46: Removes, as a record

48: Sets out neatly

49: Many a retired thoroughbred

50: Yellowish brown pigment

51: '... and baby makes ___'

52: Gridiron units

56: Long lunch?

58: Runs out of gas

59: Roof rim

60: Hearty meal

61: Little gull

63: Inch fraction

65: Brutally frank




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