Crossword for Thu, 23/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Small restaurant

5: Out-of-focus picture

9: Warm up, for short

13: Like some garage floors

14: Lassoed

16: Frost's frost

17: ___ fixe

18: Start of a quip

20: Razz

22: Cheese with a red coat

23: Remote room?

24: Noted Nehi drinker of TV

26: Propaganda target

28: Ciphered

31: Stadium passage

32: Sow's opposite

33: Miles per hour, e.g.

35: Company bought by Kmart

39: Fight for breath

40: Locales

42: Burn soother

43: Quite high

45: Hit the horn

46: Pottery oven

47: Snitches

49: Firmly fastened

51: Canine star

54: Well-lit lobbies

55: Historical period

56: Part of ROM

58: Stand up to somebody

62: Soup with pasta

65: Wild about

66: Besides

67: Human resources employee

68: Browser function

69: Observed

70: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

71: Ruing the run, perhaps

Down
1: Mint

2: Subordinate staffer

3: Head for the hills

4: Ophthalmologist's supply

5: Some thoroughbred stables

6: Bagel topper

7: Word before crust or hand

8: Woodwind requirement

9: Start to mature?

10: Orange exteriors

11: Show host

12: Hammer parts

15: Type of queen

19: Mosque officials

21: Male youth

25: Goes with the flow

27: Prohibition-era fixtures

28: Units of work

29: 'Far out!'

30: Investigator's assignment

31: 'Your mother wears army boots!,' for one

34: Excessively

36: Got grounded?

37: Butler, for Gable

38: Transmit

41: Swizzle sticks, e.g.

44: Couples

48: Grinders and choppers

50: Contend

51: Buddhist blessers

52: Quick-thinking

53: Vague perception

54: Be taken with

57: Nutmeg covering

59: Prefix with European

60: Recipe direction

61: Package carrier

63: Many, many moons

64: Wedding page word





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