Crossword for Sun, 21/Jan/2007

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Across
1: What some writers work on

5: Novel designs

10: Con job

14: ___ mater

15: Upgrade weapons

16: Tropical root

17: Flower displayed at Christmas

19: LSD, informally

20: Sesame, e.g.

21: Babble

23: Dozen for a recovery group

26: Self-evident truth

27: Get ready for a fight

30: Withered

31: Barfly

32: Meadows

34: Narrow margin of victory

36: 'All for one and one for all,' e.g.

40: Creates

42: What golfers try to break

43: It shows the way

44: Tiny dot

45: Porn

47: Sailing vessel

48: Lambaste

50: Sound on the rebound

52: Mag. submissions

53: Stick like glue

56: Agonizes (over)

58: Small division of a plant

60: Not on the waterfront

64: Earthenware jar

65: Fancy pastry

68: Person of vision

69: Wield

70: Fivesome on a five

71: Small whirlpool

72: Ten to a buck

73: To-do list item

Down
1: Dupes

2: Parcel of land

3: Dubai VIP

4: Props for fops

5: Little Leaguer, e.g.

6: '___ me think about it'

7: Feed seed

8: Send sprawling

9: Common sense

10: Relating to law

11: Prickly plants

12: Seed coverings

13: Surfing tool

18: Tennis match divisions

22: Appetite stimulant

24: Supports, with 'up'

25: Seeds for buns

27: Help for the hapless

28: Sow's opposite

29: Construct

33: Powell or Rumsfeld

35: Burp

37: Monorail unit

38: Expensive car trips?

39: Night birds

41: Bagpipe sound

46: Singers of 'I'm a Believer'?

49: Made a bird noise

51: Has made the last payment on

53: Responded to reveille

54: Distributed

55: ___ up (hiding)

57: Emulated Endymion

59: Stand on the corner?

61: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

62: Pup's bites

63: Kind of calendar

66: President pro ___

67: Wrath





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