Crossword for Wed, 2/May/2012

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Across
1: Raise crops

5: Pronounce indistinctly

9: Stone heap

14: Jai ___

15: Dixie bread

16: Arm bones

17: Uses an ax

18: October birthstone

19: Bucks' antlers

20: Subordinate

22: Handwoven rugs

24: Out of work? (abbr.)

25: Ragged

27: 'Don't stop'

29: Slander

32: Shower type

35: Give this for that

36: Prickly plants

39: Copter's cousin

40: Little one

41: Felt bad

42: Life story, for short

43: Colored eye part

45: Oil source

46: Utter loudly

47: Vacation place

49: It doesn't make all the stops

51: Turn on an axis

52: Old newsboy's call

53: Musclebound brute

55: Hang decorations on

57: Caught some z's

61: Have coming

63: Starch from palms

65: Fries, often

66: Number on a tag

67: Stead

68: Units of work

69: Spirited horse

70: Silly pair?

71: Run for
Down
1: Cool time

2: Burn soother

3: Emulates Eminem

4: Go out of bounds, perhaps

5: One who knows the score

6: Cut off

7: Having only one component

8: Trust, with 'on'

9: Arrow on a screen

10: In the manner of

11: Awesome!

12: Autumn tool

13: Digs of twigs

21: Van Gogh's love offering

23: Using both sides with equal frequency (like the letters in this puzzle's answer grid?)

26: Instruct

28: Trucker's ride

29: Moving about

30: Caused a bleep

31: Fancy pastry

33: Diva's repertoire

34: Pilfers

37: Dance part?

38: Outdated communication service

44: Helios, to the Romans

46: Some wind instruments

48: Groovy?

50: Start to mature?

52: Modern form of communication

53: Band boxes?

54: Sprightly

56: Sea spot

58: Word before irons or chains

59: Upper hand

60: Kind of calendar

62: 'PUSH FOR ___'

64: Hairdo helper




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