Crossword for Sat, 24/May/2008

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Across
1: Non-clashing color

5: Sign of healing

9: Ticked off

14: Hooligan

15: Heavy book

16: Rot

17: They desert causes

19: Inscribed pillar

20: This puzzle's theme

22: Tributes in verse

23: Bluto's assent

24: Van Gogh's love offering

26: They're made for walking

29: Perform aerial stunts, perhaps

35: Bay

36: Flooded

37: Electrical unit

38: Spun yarns

39: Unlaced moccasin

40: Tells a whopper

41: Slimy stuff

42: It's marked with a slash

43: Bristles

44: Tangled

46: Like some tree trunks

47: Had a bite

48: Wharf pest

49: Neck line?

52: Added details

59: Island dos

61: Battery part

62: Ledger transaction

63: Hit bottom

64: Ho-hum

65: Dunderheads

66: Small birds

67: Acct. summary

Down
1: Quaint oath

2: Deal with it

3: Word with beer or cellar

4: Waiting for the maitre d'

5: 'All the world's a ___' (Shakespeare)

6: Dove's domicile

7: Last word in prayer

8: Gold medal-winning

9: Passports, e.g (abbr.)

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

11: Sailed right through

12: Story by Chaucer

13: Spots

18: Lovers' lane event

21: Vague perception

25: Can opener?

26: Nonsense

27: Patty topper

28: Some dairy sticks

29: Old hat

30: Clued in

31: Smoothed the soil

32: Drops

33: Ostrich look-alikes

34: Amble

39: Lively outing

40: Superman wears them

42: Picked up a lap

43: TV spy Maxwell

45: Disposition

48: Ice, to a mixologist

49: Leaping insect

50: Ballpark figures

51: Bolts down

53: For fear that

54: Jai ___

55: Crooked

56: Libel, for instance

57: Cheese with a red coat

58: Obligation

60: Methodology (abbr.)





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