Crossword for Mon, 24/May/2010

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Across
1: Balaam's mount

4: Pharaohs' symbol of power

7: Pooh-poohs, with 'at'

13: Place for a feeling

14: 'Inhabitant' of some tequila bottles

16: Evasion

17: Register signer

19: Major thoroughfare

20: Teen faves

21: Warehouse

23: Storm particles

24: Movie greats

25: Dole (out)

29: Actress Ryan

30: Permanently injures

31: Brittle aromatic resin

32: Ultrapatriot

33: Enjoyment in cruelty

34: Flabbergasted

37: Barnum's partner

38: Still life fruits

39: Lots, sometimes

40: Cautious

41: Josh

44: Blended-family prefix

45: Bullwinkle, for one

46: Words with precedent

47: Tubby moniker

48: Put a new price on, say

49: Observes Yom Kippur

53: Ungovernable

55: Changes the decor of

56: Simon ___

57: Diddly-squat

58: Pry

59: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

60: Rm. coolers

Down
1: Scorn for seniors

2: Fountain treat

3: Powerful

4: Piercing tools

5: Helios, to the Romans

6: High standing achieved through success

7: Old badges of honor

8: Roy Innis's org.

9: Choose

10: Dr. No, to Bond

11: It may be synthetic

12: Pig's digs

15: Change

18: Trite

22: Surgery sites, briefly

24: Like the beach

25: __ operandi

26: Multigenerational story

27: To-do list item

28: Shade tree

30: Excavation sites

31: Bear

32: Mint drink

33: Gaze fixedly

34: Ambassador's forte

35: 'Spenser: For ___' (Urich series)

36: Like some workers

37: ___-relief

40: Portable bed

41: Part of one's eye makeup

42: Slanted type style

43: Kin of croissants

45: En ___ (all together)

46: Brief time, briefly

47: Have an opinion

48: Thorny flower

49: Get ready for a fight

50: Player's peg

51: Like any number finishing with '9'

52: Silent sayso

54: Stain, as a fabric





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