Crossword for Wed, 20/Jan/2010

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Across
1: Avg.

4: It may be Olympic-sized

8: Seamstress's sticker

11: Follow

13: Nosed (out)

15: Fly alone

16: Clearasil target

17: Stuff

18: Related

19: Connery and Moore, e.g.

21: Pay back

23: Qualities of the conceited

25: Even-steven

26: Dilapidated

30: Knitted fabric

34: Feed seed

35: Proved to be human

37: Silly person

38: Court order

40: Nasal passage

42: Recipe direction

43: Convoy vehicles

45: McCoy, to Captain Kirk

47: President pro ___

48: Plant swellings

50: Nuclear power plants

52: Spill the beans

54: Cut in half, as a log

55: Mutually comparable

60: Sinks one's teeth into

63: Burn soother

64: Figure of speech

66: Spellbound

67: Favorable factor

68: Brown pigment

69: Stead

70: Jazz instrument, briefly

71: Quakers or Shakers

72: Ran in front

Down
1: Thrusting blow

2: Folded food

3: Grace period?

4: Links tee

5: Skunk's funk

6: Shrek, e.g.

7: On the up-and-up

8: Like Richard and Yorick?

9: Misfortunes

10: Connecting point

12: Potted plant place

14: Relinquish office

15: Places of 'action'

20: Pump part

22: Ice mass

24: Business letter addressees

26: Look for water

27: Dog-___

28: Den of thieves

29: Opera hero, usually

31: Small rabbit

32: Basketry twig

33: Contract conditions

36: 50-Down feature

39: Tone colors

41: Geographical seven

44: Cause of a Macy's riot?

46: Sign of healing

49: Popeye's buddies

51: Spin

53: Exposes

55: Mortarboards

56: Earthenware jar

57: Cajun cooking thickener

58: Drink to excess

59: Multigenerational story

61: Olympic weapon

62: Many a retired thoroughbred

65: Feed one's face





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