Crossword for Wed, 2/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Tramps

5: Feel compassion

9: Eager, to the max

14: Uptight, slangily

15: “Not guilty,” e.g.

16: Long green

17: Railings

19: No longer in vogue

20: Geological span

21: Dr. No, to Bond

22: Puts out

23: Urban grid

25: Small songbird

26: Coping device

27: Timetable

31: Ending of many WWW addresses

34: Do over, as a backsplash

36: Point, as a rifle

37: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

38: Deck basecoats

40: Cycle starter

41: Merlot cask

42: Cement worker's tool

43: Feed one's face

44: Like some watermelons

47: Ancient mariner

49: Niagara Falls sound

50: Beethoven's 'Appassionata' et al.

54: ___ at the mouth (becomes angry)

56: Sternward

58: Make a swap

59: Motion defeaters

60: Not out of the question

62: Carbon copy

63: Cons' confines

64: Film follower

65: Beginners

66: Rice drink

67: Oodles
Down
1: Toyland visitors

2: Not suitable

3: Mount Vernon, e.g.

4: Canned peaches, often

5: Liable

6: They're on the staff

7: Long lunch?

8: Life of Riley

9: Current unit

10: Got frothy

11: Hint slyly

12: Unused portion

13: Spots

18: Removes with clippers

24: Certain speaker

25: Cabbie's question

27: Country towers

28: Ball of yarn

29: Former capital of Italy?

30: Give off

31: Table scraps

32: Bounder

33: Power source

35: Sailors

39: Biased viewpoints

45: Masquerade wear

46: Highlands misses

48: ___ to go

50: Was really, really bad

51: No-no of society

52: Improvise

53: Visionaries

54: It's true

55: Just

56: PC software

57: Leaping insect

61: Employ




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