Crossword for Tue, 26/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Two-piece piece

4: Like extreme opposites

9: Mexican cuisine

14: Slim swimmer

15: Black band of mourning (Var.)

16: Circumvent

17: They desert causes

19: Kitchen clock

20: Hi-fi description

21: Actual wording

22: Paycheck booster

23: Treeless plain

25: Lacking, along the Loire

26: Breaks

30: Pindar product

33: Rose oil

36: Hulks pump it

37: Puzzle piece

38: Mountain lake

39: Lackluster

40: Command to Fido

41: Group of three

42: Repetitive routine

43: These can be checkered

44: Lincoln loc.

45: Food suppliers

47: Slips

49: 'Speed' star

53: Turkish bigwig

55: BB's and bullets

58: Butler, for Gable

59: Used a bombsight

60: Rhymester

62: Model of excellence

63: Kind of boom

64: Chicken-to-be

65: Thick

66: Burp

67: 'The Catcher in the ___'
Down
1: Joist and transom, for two

2: Transplant, in a way

3: Flying solo

4: Per hundred (Abbr.)

5: Gives a speech

6: Not on schedule

7: High point

8: Unused portion

9: Colorful aquarium fish

10: Like a roc

11: Victoria’s Secret offerings

12: Tributes in verse

13: Withered

18: Provider of top notes

24: A pop

25: Transmit

27: Word with light or episode

28: Ticked off

29: Photocopier ink

31: Song for two

32: They get into sushi

33: FYI cousin

34: Weight allowance

35: Clan members

37: Word with ambulance or beer

39: Lingerie buys

43: Start to mature?

45: Junior rocker

46: Hot

48: Ostrich look-alikes

50: Loser in every election, to skeptics

51: Pensive piece of poetry

52: Twill weave

53: Rendered, as a compliment

54: Subordinate staffer

55: Church recess

56: Scene of many a werewolf tale

57: Maître d's offering

61: It may be passed on the Hill




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