Crossword for Thu, 26/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Cocoon's contents

5: Trig. function

10: Bolts down

14: Uptight, slangily

15: Misanthrope

16: Marginally sufficient

17: Lampoon

19: Forepart of a boat

20: No great shake

21: Fade away

22: Stocking stuffers

23: Online VIP

24: Germfree state

26: Warm, in a sense

28: Half-hearted

31: Blue fish in 'Finding Nemo'

34: Kind of talk

36: Bert's street

37: Electrify

38: Soldier's shoulder piece

40: Put up preserves

41: Brass and bronze

43: Constricting snake

44: Precious stones

45: Redacts

46: Fruit for flavoring gin

48: Splits

52: Soda flavor

56: “Not guilty,” e.g.

58: Lower, as lights

59: Less polished

60: Deep desires

61: Preparing to affix, as a stamp

63: Speedway competition

64: Take out or in

65: Art ___

66: Barely manages, with 'out'

67: Like Fran Drescher's voice

68: Fat on the bird feeder

Down
1: Treaties

2: Having only one component

3: Cuts

4: Money derived from an old union

5: Burn to a crisp

6: Feed seed

7: Handsome hunks

8: Spine-tingling

9: Weirdo

10: Dumps out

11: High-tech industry

12: 'Aeneid' city

13: What Wendy does to reattach Peter's shadow

18: Deal with it

24: Bailiwick

25: Leave in, to an editor

27: PC software

29: Shiite leader

30: Cubbyholes?

31: Title for Edith Evans

32: Was in the red

33: Tendency to be reserved

35: Bar

36: Flippered fish fancier

38: Apart from this

39: Write-off

42: World records?

44: Wishing and hoping

47: Shrek, e.g.

49: Jingle writer, perhaps

50: String quartet member

51: Puts out

53: 'Farewell, François!'

54: Coppers in Coventry

55: Grain fungus

56: Fiery stack

57: Information from Deep Throat

59: Letters on a keyboard key

62: Red or Yellow





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