Crossword for Tue, 25/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Con job

5: Grates upon

10: Emulates Eminem

14: Run gracefully

15: 'Play It ___, Sam'

16: Firm head

17: Band boxes?

18: Viola's bigger cousin

19: “Not guilty,” e.g.

20: One way to get out of jail

22: Silver-tongued

24: Represent onstage

26: Place for a rubber duckie

27: Put up preserves

29: 'Total Recall' planet

31: Delta deposits

34: Aardvark's tidbit

35: Supports, with 'up'

37: Cuts back on calories

39: Blue funk

41: Summer ermine

43: Extended family

44: First word in magic

46: 'Kama ___' (Hindu love manual)

48: Teamwork deterrent

49: Rumormonger

51: Adolescent

52: Kitten's cry

53: Place for a feeling

54: Bristles

56: Gorbachev's policy

61: Sang lightly

64: Galoot

65: Unfettered

67: Beseech

68: Shrek, e.g.

69: Colophons

70: Rube

71: Eerie sound

72: Collar inserts

73: Feel compassion
Down
1: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

2: State of unconsciousness

3: Trainee

4: Subatomic particle

5: They do laps

6: Historical period

7: Cause of a Macy's riot?

8: Major pain, slangily

9: They think they're superior

10: United States, e.g.

11: Drive train element

12: Part of a hammer head

13: 'Flee, feline!'

21: Genie's place, in lore

23: ___ pro quo

25: Competes in a sulky race

27: Johnny with a guitar

28: Get one's goat

30: Pontificate

32: Like remote data transmissions

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

36: Stuffs to the gills

38: Frosty's composition

40: Atomic number 74

42: Like a tundra

45: Amaze

47: Knock preceder

50: Ring-shaped coral islands

55: Series beginning

56: ___ onto (grab)

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

58: Mystique

59: Chimney sweep's target

60: Roman wrap

62: Every one individually

63: Levee

66: Szechuan sauce source




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