Crossword for Wed, 25/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Reason and Enlightenment

5: Pontificate

10: What golfers try to break

13: Insect stages

15: Thicket

16: 'PUSH FOR ___'

17: Salon stylist

19: Coat of many colors?

20: Happening

21: CandW's Travis

23: Fancy affairs

24: Sundial figure

25: Caused a bleep

27: What keeps Johnny comfy in winter?

31: Dunderheads

34: Galley propellers

35: Sound of a fan

36: Element removed from gasoline

37: Turners at cookouts

39: Withered

40: Hairdo helper

41: Merino mamas

42: Gave in

43: Positron, e.g.

47: It may be fine

48: She's a deer

49: In between

52: Iron alloy

54: Like ogres and A-bombs

56: Sensational

57: Working

60: 'You ___ here'

61: Hammer for a court justice

62: Mooch

63: Debussy's 'La ___'

64: Manuscript markings

65: They're 16th of 26
Down
1: Pea pest

2: Rich fertilizer

3: Extended and dramatic narratives

4: Bombay garment

5: Picturesque

6: Station

7: Photo ___ (campaign events)

8: Employ

9: Frights

10: Trailblazed

11: LSD, informally

12: Trust, with 'on'

14: Whirlpools

18: Curb

22: Get ready for a fight

25: Smack, as a baseball

26: Armed conflicts

27: Four-poster, e.g.

28: Device for heavy lifting

29: Exceptional

30: Let fall

31: Pond organism

32: Observed

33: Naturally occurring potassium nitrate

37: Adult ugly duckling

38: Sprightly

39: Attend

41: Actor's last words (Var.)

42: Parson, e.g.

44: Wrath

45: Epitomes

46: Joseph had one of many colors

49: Haut ___ (high society)

50: Reputation in society

51: Strikes from a proof

52: Pillow cover

53: Ripped apart

54: Neck line?

55: Word before opera or dish

58: Butter square

59: Original sinner




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