Crossword for Thu, 25/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Wild guesses

6: Wager

9: Puts the kibosh on

14: Eyelashes

15: Crew implement

16: Senate of old Rome

17: Tests that allow talking

18: Batman foe Poison ___

19: Paid to play

20: What an astronaut experiences in space

23: Van Gogh's love offering

24: Small amount

25: 'PUSH FOR ___'

28: Sharp barks

31: Jewish occult philosophy

36: Fungus type

39: Holography device

40: Thus

41: Modern form of communication

43: 'I beg your pardon?'

44: Teen hang-outs

46: Perfect

48: Is in the arms of Morpheus

50: Withered

51: Like a wallflower

52: 'To each ___ own'

54: Balaam's mount

56: Between Earth and Venus, e.g.

64: Betray contempt

65: Feel unwell

66: Eagle's nest

67: Square things

68: Red or Yellow

69: Eurasian forest

70: Swimming holes

71: Mag. submissions

72: / or \
Down
1: Garbage barge

2: Word before irons or chains

3: Jai ___

4: Nonsense

5: Strolls down the runway

6: Turn to gas

7: Roof rim

8: Lovers' lane event

9: Tabloid topic

10: Ditty

11: Table scraps

12: Diner desserts

13: In mourning

21: Overused, as a phrase

22: Pouch in the body

25: Things in a shopping basket

26: Reef material

27: High-ranking Boy Scout

29: Fleshy fruit

30: Flies high

32: Blubber

33: Hearth heap

34: Spot checker?

35: Chichi

37: Loser to Clinton in '96

38: Old Italian money

42: Ship's positioning system

45: Heavenly bodies

47: Ushers to another row

49: Churchill's title

53: Sudden burst of energy

55: Incredible bargain

56: Wild about

57: Lighted sign contents

58: Keep an eye on

59: Tells a whopper

60: Word of woe

61: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

62: Fixes

63: 'You betcha!'

64: Tree fluid




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