Crossword for Mon, 24/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Word after union or comparison

5: Prepare eggs, in a way

10: Roadside stops

14: Stellar phenomenon

15: Craft entered gingerly

16: Bounder

17: Not designated

19: Bridle path excursion

20: Long suits

21: Sweetened

23: Small one

24: Balaam's mount

26: Siamese or Persian

27: Casino machines, briefly

29: Inscrutable sort

33: Go postal

36: Irritate

38: Impales

39: Breathing space

40: Kind of boom

42: Snack

43: Like expectations not realized

45: ___ citizenship

46: On vacation, perhaps

47: Catch sight of

49: Traffic problem

51: Garden tool

52: Musclebound brute

53: What golfers try to break

56: English cheese

60: Grand marshal's following

62: Deep purple

63: Distinguishing behavior

66: Printing liquids

67: Love affair

68: Informal voucher

69: Some votes in Congress

70: Witches' brew beasties

71: Milliner's stock
Down
1: Nose powder

2: Medal, maybe

3: Part of the pistil

4: Days gone by

5: Don't run with these

6: Crone

7: Quaint lodging

8: Lobster and beluga products

9: Cut back

10: Not reasonable

11: Film follower

12: Without a stitch

13: Watermelon beginning

18: Flippered fish fancier

22: The Sharks or the Jets

25: Symbolized, with 'for'

27: Silenced

28: Nasal passage

30: Expand

31: City near Scottsdale

32: Like burnt briquettes

33: Common tater

34: What the fourth little piggy had

35: Provides weapons to

37: Jungle vine

41: Percussion instruments

44: Harness race pace

48: Beefeater, for one

50: Type of admiral

53: Turkish bigwig

54: Let on

55: Musical symbols

56: Gyrate

57: Sandwich fish

58: Repulsive

59: Application form blank

61: 'If I Were a ___ Man'

64: When most children want things

65: Kook




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