Crossword for Tue, 22/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Pouch in the body

4: Love handles

8: 1040EZ, e.g.

12: '___ Peace a Chance'

13: Used to be

14: Set straight

16: Woodwind requirement

17: Have the nerve

18: Orzo or ziti

19: Grimm goons

21: Snack

23: Miffed, with 'off'

24: Obtain

25: Meditate (on)

27: Musclebound brute

29: Female domestic

30: Routing term

31: It may be passed on the Hill

34: Shoot for, with 'to'

37: Gold layer

38: Slimy stuff

39: Night light

40: Idol worshiper

41: Ice mass

42: Boil fluid

43: Swindles

45: Tries to tag, maybe

47: Devious

48: Thanksgiving staple

49: Mint

50: LP measure

51: Elevator car

52: Tournament exemption

55: Time past

58: Stretch across

60: Speak foolishly

62: Giraffe relative

64: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

66: Jack-in-the-pulpit

67: Dent in an orange

68: Fly alone

69: Gotham gridders

70: Loud utterance

71: Adolescent

72: Can opener?
Down
1: Prolonged attack

2: Head off

3: Give up

4: Basketball position (abbr.)

5: Tilted

6: It shows the way

7: Quilting parties

8: Uploading initials

9: Speak formally

10: Artifice

11: Dole (out)

12: Rum drink

15: Family man

20: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

22: Call a cab

26: Get going

28: Butter square

29: Hour div.

30: French wine

31: Reason and Enlightenment

32: Roy Innis's org.

33: Dresses nattily, with 'up'

34: Band boxes?

35: Body's companion

36: Floral arrangement

37: Brake neighbor

40: 28,800 seconds before midnight

41: Prohibition

43: Shortchange

44: Southern roots

45: Minor player, so to speak

46: Hurried

49: Taper

50: Run off

51: Craft entered gingerly

52: Goes on and on and on...

53: Salad days

54: Boulevard liners

55: Hither's opposite

56: Pretty good

57: Rip-roaring review

59: Days gone by

61: Indian king

63: Hardly hale

65: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush




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