Crossword for Tue, 24/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Cul-de-___ (dead end roads)

5: Gaze fixedly

10: Deal with it

14: Long-necked instrument

15: Plotters, possibly

16: Sparkle

17: Doubtful

19: Geek's cousin

20: Spanky, to Alfalfa

21: Browning of pages of verse, for example

22: Kills, in government

24: Tears roughly

25: Elevator car

26: Cummerbund's cousins

29: Touring vehicle

33: '___ Tomorrow' (Sammy Kaye)

34: Dummy

35: Confront

36: In the near future

37: Scrapes and scratches

38: Computer signpost

39: Mouselike farmland pest

40: Takes advantage of

41: Father Time feature

42: Ugly sights

44: Watch flashers?

45: Vintners' vessels

46: Attired

47: Longhaired cat

50: Segments of history

51: Come to pass

54: Horse color

55: Soup with pasta

58: Sea spot

59: Fairy tale shoemaker's helpers

60: Some intestinal divisions

61: Finder's cries

62: With an ulterior motive

63: Whimper

Down
1: A pink one means trouble

2: Mystique

3: Letters on a keyboard key

4: Attend

5: Sundae portions

6: Stories

7: Share a border with

8: Wharf pest

9: Promotes

10: Where Tris Speaker performed

11: Table spread

12: Cut back

13: Budgets make them meet

18: Sales pitch

23: Teamwork deterrent

24: Ornaments that resemble diamonds

25: Deals (with), as a problem

26: Debonair

27: Get one's goat

28: Mink wrap

29: Behavioral bases

30: Chocolate source

31: Type of squash

32: Tears apart

34: Prescribed amounts

37: Smith and Jones, e.g.

41: Blow one's own horn

43: '___ Town'

44: Elegant and fashionable

46: Bass basket

47: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

48: Snack

49: Festive affair

50: One of the deadly sins

51: Logical flaw

52: Freshly

53: Sound of laughter

56: Hardly hale

57: Backboard attachment





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