Crossword for Wed, 23/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Farm team neckwear

5: Diploma holder

9: Expire

14: High point

15: Indian king

16: Put to rest

17: Cooped (up)

18: Pretty good

19: Chap

20: More aloof

22: Made a bird noise

23: Tear apart

24: Cottonseed source

25: Rigid social classes

28: Viennese table array

32: Colorado ski resort

33: Jailbirds

34: Sensational

35: Lose traction

36: Type of guitar

37: Talking bird

38: Barbie's ex-beau

39: Mat wins

40: Kitchen clock

41: Exhibiting nervousness, in a way

44: Scrooge and Silas Marner

45: What the fourth little piggy had

46: Baby powder

47: Wild animal tracks

50: Daisy chains, e.g.

54: Riding attire

55: Greatest amount

56: Place for the catbird?

57: Just like ewe?

58: Cocktail hour spread

59: Folded food

60: Annoying ones

61: Campbell of country music

62: Do a spit take
Down
1: Mouths, slangily

2: Sesame starter?

3: Numbers game

4: Demanded a ransom, e.g.

5: Jetties that prevent shoreline erosion

6: Smoothed the soil

7: Nearly closed

8: One rotation of the earth

9: Stereotypes

10: Mutated gene

11: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

12: Rice drink

13: Possessing peepers

21: Adolescent

22: Sheriff's band

24: Emulates a Silly Straw

25: Port containers

26: Out of whack

27: Title holder?

28: Performing

29: Name for game, e.g.

30: Photocopier ink

31: Movie greats

33: Subject of the biopic 'Sweet Dreams'

36: Kissing game turns

37: Puts in an unsuitable role

40: Plow the field

42: Sprinkle with holy oil

43: Rich cakes

44: Weasel's cousin

46: Sample, as the soup

47: Word after union or comparison

48: Lay macadam

49: Geishas' sashes

50: One-third of a hat trick

51: Tide type

52: Carp cousin

53: Put into the overhead bin

55: EPA computation




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