Crossword for Sat, 21/Nov/2009

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Across
1: Big hit

6: Baseball VIPs

10: The others

14: Foamy pick-me-up

15: Fen fuel

16: Use a whetstone

17: Love affair

18: Rational

19: Break-even amount

20: Skip about

22: Spun yarns

24: Stick on a table

25: Preconception

27: Sportscaster's avoidances

29: Took the wrong way

33: Senate vote

34: Enthusiastic

35: Not his

37: Lie detector determination, in theory

41: Churchill's title

42: Dollars, slangily

44: Water temperature 'gauge'

45: Nolo contendere and others

48: Place for the catbird?

49: French film

50: Dandy

52: Rose steadily

54: Coverings for feet or shoes

58: Barbershop sound

59: Yuletide worker

60: Ness, for one

62: Equine piece

66: 'Dolce' kind of life

68: Rounded Ottoman

70: Flight component

71: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

72: Theater section

73: High-ranking Boy Scout

74: Impart temporarily

75: Olympic weapon

76: Party's candidates
Down
1: Smelting residue

2: Cass Elliot, once

3: Bit to split

4: Put (out), as a cigar

5: Speedball ingredient

6: At bats

7: Ground corn

8: Lose one's cool

9: Resolute

10: Pot ingredient?

11: Illicitly distilled liquor

12: Come after

13: Parcels (out)

21: Supporting wood strips

23: South Beach, e.g.

26: Searches for

28: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

29: Imitate Popeye

30: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

31: Foal's father

32: ___ up (quits talking)

36: Center-to-quarterback transitions

38: Elec., e.g.

39: Musical pitch

40: Give attention

43: Skunk smell

46: Sternward

47: Potter's purchase

49: Accumulated wealth

51: Women and children, e.g.

53: Salon tasks

54: Cut at an angle

55: Oil source

56: Frequently

57: Newshawk's triumph

61: Titanic

63: Wild (over)

64: Dagger handle

65: Family follower?

67: 'Not only that ...'

69: Finder's charge




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