Crossword for Wed, 20/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Choir members

6: Hunk of cheese

10: Circle sections

14: Depart

15: Breathing space

16: River residue

17: Of the Holy See

18: Filet mignon source

19: Train for a title fight

20: A dynamic speaker, e.g.

23: Start to mature?

24: Feed one's face

25: They're numbered in supermarkets

27: Provides provender

31: Tools for handymen

33: Neural fiber

34: Spread thickly

36: Agent's take, maybe

38: Aardvark's tidbit

39: Office copy, commonly

43: Quits before the king is captured

46: Unhearing

47: Oxford tie

50: Not present

52: Odalisques' places

53: Hardly hale

54: Trite

55: Dazzling performer

62: Table spread

64: Object of pagan worship

65: Surrender

66: Wart giver of folklore

67: 'Don't stop'

68: Not yet ignited

69: Listened to the bears

70: Vexes

71: Strips

Down
1: Crescent-shaped mountain range

2: Entrechat or jeté

3: A runner may break it

4: Football's contour

5: Merchant

6: Take off

7: Bird with an eerie call

8: Like the Atacama

9: Not good enough for

10: Balaam's mount

11: Small wave

12: Wine choice

13: Kind of fracture

21: Striped fish

22: Kitchen gadget

26: Tattered state

27: Siamese or Persian

28: Fireman's tool

29: Bon or won follower

30: Menu choice

31: Where the deer and the antelope play

32: FYI cousin

35: Secular

37: Wheels at sea

40: Capital of Phoenix?

41: Campaigned for office

42: Many a time

44: Japanese fish dish

45: Shaker contents

47: Fashion photo sessions

48: Hounds hunt holler

49: Trying experience

51: Lose one's temper

53: Skye and Man

56: Skunk's funk

57: Toil

58: Plate of glass

59: Fortune

60: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

61: Soaks, as flax

63: Like any number finishing with '9'





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