Crossword for Sun, 20/Dec/2009

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Across
1: 'Ballet Rehearsal' artist

6: Coin toss

10: Casino card game

14: Rust, tarnish, or laughing gas

15: Dixie bread

16: Alpine climber

17: Investigate, with 'into'

18: Construct

19: Get all stirred up

20: Electron valence sets

22: Had an opinion

24: One rotation of the earth

25: Flightless bird

27: Shooter who seldom misses

29: Vegetable oil source

33: Unproductive

34: Diner desserts

35: Isinglass

37: They’re often out on a limb

41: For ___ the marbles

42: Besmirches

44: 'Caught you!'

45: Used a keyboard

48: Memo

49: Do without

50: Firearm

52: How some shall remain

54: Tricolor dogs, often

58: Ceremonial practice

59: Band blaster

60: Blossom from a bulb

62: Marked by deceit

66: 'What do you ___?'

68: Make a mistake

70: Block house?

71: Stead

72: Happy time?

73: Certain writing tool

74: Hunk of cheese

75: Nimble

76: Manner of performance
Down
1: Extinct flightless bird

2: Firm head

3: Gold layer

4: Quickly and quietly, for instance

5: Get mad

6: 28,800 seconds before midnight

7: Emulate a couch potato

8: What the scared squid did

9: Like watchful eyes

10: Cone producer

11: Tolerate

12: Race with batons

13: Daisy type

21: Fraying spots

23: Mountain lake

26: Charged particle

28: Stain, as a fabric

29: Tiff

30: Like some garage floors

31: Puppy's plaint

32: Junior, often

36: The rite place?

38: Rice drink

39: '___ is Your Life'

40: Dupes

43: Convoy vehicles

46: Chicken-to-be

47: Yawn-provoking

49: Adroitness in using the hands

51: Stable sounds

53: Moral principles

54: Cries lustily

55: Modern form of communication

56: Breathing problem

57: Single-masted sailing vessel

61: Thy, nowadays

63: Skin

64: Causeway fee

65: Farm team neckwear

67: Place for a rubber duckie

69: Small one




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