Crossword for Sun, 20/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Unruly crowds

5: Warm and cuddly

9: Nearly closed

13: Assist larcenously

14: They may be stacked

16: Body of an organism

17: Gondolier gear

18: Give permission for

19: Branchlet

20: Pick

22: Wrestlers' maneuvers

24: Merchant

26: Part of a hammer head

27: Healthy lunch choice

29: Some chords

33: Not right

36: Religious councils

38: Give this for that

39: Casting director's assignments

41: Metro maker

42: '... ___ angels fear to tread'

43: Breakfast grain

44: Waitron

46: Condensation phenomenon

47: It's treated in a plant

49: Convoy vehicles

51: Matter topper?

53: Ignite

56: Display of grandeur

60: Like the nervous system

62: Spoken

63: Animal with twisted horns

65: Take digs at

66: Bona ___

67: Malevolent pachyderm

68: Golfer Irwin

69: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

70: Tear apart

71: Long haul

Down
1: Plots of ground

2: Reed instruments

3: Ball bigwig

4: Stiffens

5: Like the minuet

6: Coat of many colors?

7: Had an opinion

8: Assemblage of people

9: Floor

10: Fleshy part of the face

11: In the thick of

12: Shoddy clothing

15: Big celebration for a high schooler

21: History or English

23: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

25: Where the deer and the antelope play

28: Industrious group

30: Overwhelmed

31: Have the nerve

32: Do a spit take

33: Eyes

34: Bad driver's shout

35: Diamond defect

37: Peace signs

40: Like some porcelain pieces

42: Correspond with

44: Email info

45: Touched up

48: Beefeater, e.g.

50: Endeavored

52: Sorrow

54: Mendicant

55: It's an old story

56: Soft seat

57: Fuddy-duddy

58: Take on cargo

59: Roid or road follower

61: Onion's cousin

64: 'Sister Act' extra





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