Crossword for Fri, 2/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Conserve

5: Looks like a lecher

10: Foot part

14: October birthstone

15: Physique

16: Cut back

17: Be flexible

18: High numbers?

19: Nearly closed

20: Appraisal

22: Emulates Eminem

23: Nonsense

24: Pt. of USDA

26: Not right

29: Bellhop's burdens

32: Japanese sauce

36: Whip

38: Make a mistake

40: 'Magnificent' movie number

41: Casino card game

42: Viscounts' superiors

44: Pup's bites

45: Zeal

47: Harness race pace

48: Weight allowance

49: Subordinate

51: 'You betcha!'

53: Logic circuit element

54: Firm head

56: Cockroach, for one

58: Behaves

61: Kind, as to guests

67: 'I beg your pardon?'

68: Modern form of communication

69: Them, to us

70: Like some excuses

71: Ammonia compound

72: Brouhaha

73: Blended-family prefix

74: Stories

75: 'No problem!'
Down
1: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

2: Fossey's focus

3: Moving vehicles

4: Adjective for some statesmen

5: Behind the scenes

6: In bad humor

7: Bathe

8: Correct copy

9: Six-line poem

10: Digs, perhaps

11: Indian king

12: Renege, slangily, with 'out'

13: Not his

21: Turn on the waterworks

25: Faux follower

26: Butcher's leavings

27: Roadside distress signal

28: Henry and Gerald

30: Bearded mammal

31: Having second thoughts

33: Like a roc

34: Office copy, commonly

35: Map legend, usually

37: March without bending the knees

39: Slippery sheet

43: Unmoving pieces by Henry Moore, e.g.

46: Mardi Gras luminary

50: Pop in the microwave

52: Crude abode

55: Reason to pause

57: Lack of tact, perhaps

58: Piercing tools

59: On-line discussion

60: Unresisting

62: Travel smoothly

63: State tree of Maine

64: Gaucho's cattle catcher

65: Meadows

66: Get a glimpse of




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