Crossword for Tue, 24/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Litter member

4: Make milk

11: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

14: In the past

15: Stuffy nose reliever

16: Unwrought iron

17: Dazzling performer

19: Wharf pest

20: Ostracized person

21: Removal key

23: Church recesses

25: Time-wasting bother

28: Risk runner

29: Polynesian paste

30: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

32: Repairs the outfield

33: Make beloved

37: Exhorts

39: Cowardly, in slang

43: Relinquish office

44: Time for an early lunch

46: Very top

49: “Not guilty,” e.g.

51: Aardvark's tidbit

52: Prepare eggs, in a way

54: Goof up

55: Calendar page

57: Answered with cheek

59: Macbeth's title

61: For ___ the marbles

62: Concerns for ecologists

67: Senate vote

68: Report

69: Biretta or beret

70: Pig's digs

71: Teases

72: Long time
Down
1: Faux follower

2: Utterance of revulsion

3: Lounging area

4: Has trouble saying sassafras

5: Players may up it

6: Sung by a group

7: Dance like Hines

8: Mont Blanc, for one

9: Miffed, with 'off'

10: Proved to be human

11: 'Olé!' recipient

12: Preached

13: Coin takers

18: Itty-bitty

22: Canine star

23: Musclebound brute

24: Express mail carrier?

26: Skeptic

27: Shrek, e.g.

31: Get an eyeful

34: Pastors' assistants

35: Tap output

36: Play like a puppy

38: Building wing

40: Strategem

41: Disappear like vapor

42: Fender flaw

45: Utmost

46: Metallic tests

47: Alpine abode

48: Lose

50: Like Dickens's Dodger

53: Showed a show again

55: Convenience stores

56: Undivided

58: Carp cousin

60: Use a whetstone

63: 'PUSH FOR ___'

64: Silent sayso

65: Ancient mariner

66: Resort hotel




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