Crossword for Tue, 20/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Up to the task

5: Fiery stack

9: Leveling wedge

13: Piece of strategy

14: Axels and lutzes

16: Give birth to

17: Summon with a beeper

18: Opposite extreme

20: Poorly made

22: Non-clashing color

23: Afternoon brew

24: Not so green

26: Take stock of

28: High and low

31: Dermatologist's concern

32: Tide type

33: Without a stitch

35: Two-masted vessels

39: Like a dungeon

40: Germ cell

42: Tooth's partner

43: Betray contempt

45: Adolescent

46: Like some straits

47: Large predatory birds of myth

49: Changed to fit in

51: Rent collector

54: Fauna's partner

55: Utterance of revulsion

56: Ankles, anatomically

58: Update, as machinery

62: Insignia with a skull

65: Scrabble letter

66: Numbers game

67: Actor's minimum wage

68: Silly pair?

69: Blended-family prefix

70: Misfortunes

71: Handwoven rugs

Down
1: PC software

2: Borrrring

3: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

4: Ophthalmologist's supply

5: Toddler corrals

6: Craving

7: Appraiser

8: Multigenerational story

9: '___ Loves You'

10: Hurried pace

11: Prestigious schools, informally

12: Flat-topped hills

15: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

19: Brazen type

21: N.L. Central, e.g.

25: Doesn't contain one's anger

27: Tolerate a sideshow barker?

28: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

29: Show partiality

30: Like some excuses

31: Post production?

34: She's a deer

36: Be on standby

37: Old Italian money

38: Kane's dying thought

41: Signs the check, but not as payer

44: Top-rated TV series of 1977

48: Grouses

50: 'You ___ here'

51: Hits a long shot, with 'out'

52: White wading bird

53: Did superbly

54: Set in concrete, so to speak

57: Places

59: Like some garage floors

60: Earthenware jar

61: Minus

63: Absorb, with 'up'

64: Building wing





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