Crossword for Fri, 23/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Butter square

4: Put down

9: Sealed a package

14: Employ

15: Fixed, as a shoe

16: Tiny type size

17: Map abbr.

18: Schlepped

19: Aesop's lesson

20: Street urchin

23: Historical period

24: Airwaves

25: Van Gogh's love offering

26: Obtain

27: Appear

28: Troubadours of yore

31: Breathing space

32: Confront

33: Climbing plants

34: Monarchs, e.g.

38: Little rascal

40: Jai ___

41: Waterproof cover

42: Picture in a locker

44: SAT part

48: Photo ___ (campaign events)

49: Seamstress's sticker

50: Chop into small bits

51: Golf range surface

52: G

56: Place to call home

58: Spartan serf

59: Tricked

60: Dagger accompaniment

61: High-ranking Boy Scout

62: Speed meas.

63: Wheels at sea

64: Old footwear

65: Balaam's mount

Down
1: Removes impurities from

2: Shrewd

3: Cut canines

4: Fall bloom

5: Rude person

6: Hgts.

7: Observed

8: Circulated, in a way

9: Circus employee

10: In the past

11: Models of excellence

12: Place for bric-a-brac

13: Erases, as a disk

21: President pro ___

22: Faux follower

28: Take one's cuts

29: Star pitcher

30: Showed a show again

31: Chart shape

32: Uploading initials

33: Winner at Caesar's palace?

34: Pub seat

35: Diamond judge

36: Winter ailment

37: Full circle, on the track

38: Stand

39: Skilled

42: Multiplex choices, for short

43: Furlong's 7,920

44: ___ for tat

45: Inscrutable sort

46: Sundae portions

47: Dimes, in a way

49: Cheats at blindman's buff

50: Wins at chess

53: Entrechat or jeté

54: Pond organism

55: Lose feathers

57: Block up





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