Crossword for Wed, 27/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Extinct flightless bird

5: Plotter's output

10: PDA entry

14: Declare openly

15: Hunt holler

16: Bombay garment

17: '70s trouser style

19: Hang decorations on

20: Curls one's lip

21: Earthly

23: King or queen

26: Parrot perches

27: Upsilon follower

30: Nasty

31: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

32: They might be visual

34: Political gossip, at times

36: Lava, while underground

40: Does nothing

42: Use the oars

43: Less doubtful

44: Bloodsucker

45: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

47: SAT part

48: St. Louis gridder

50: Former capital of Italy?

52: Toddler's constant question

53: Stick like glue

56: Pig noise

58: Meteor-impact sites

60: Complete failure

64: Greek letter

65: Chain of mountains

68: Busy sort

69: Modern form of communication

70: Fail to include

71: Nimble

72: Where the deer and the antelope play

73: Points
Down
1: Applies lightly

2: Where cookies might crumble

3: Loser to Clinton in '96

4: Just-hatched hooter

5: Wrote (for)

6: Wharf pest

7: Peak stat

8: Parcel of land

9: Four-baggers

10: Spacy type?

11: Cuts

12: It may be fine

13: X, mathwise

18: Panama hat part

22: Hotel accommodations

24: Hibernation locales

25: Records

27: Sandbox plaything

28: Seek cover, maybe

29: Emulate a couch potato

33: Powell or Rumsfeld

35: 'A Tramp Abroad' author

37: Got larger

38: Dovetail

39: Pretentious

41: Wall Street commodity

46: Word with high, low or user

49: 'Moon River' lyricist

51: Nutmeg covering

53: Tannic and boric

54: Hang like basset hound ears

55: Misanthrope

57: Eagle's claw

59: Body of an organism

61: Final prelim

62: Den of thieves

63: They may be wild or rolled

66: Campaigned for office

67: Do some research




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