Crossword for Sat, 27/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Tickled-pink feeling

5: Prepares leather

9: Sheriff's band

14: Many millennia

15: Burn soother

16: Had a virus, say

17: Impart temporarily

18: Ancient character

19: Served, as hash

20: Variety

23: Give up

24: Horse color

25: In the manner of

27: Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys?

34: Big Mama Thornton's bag?

35: Romance novelist Victoria

36: Printer spec.

37: Get all stirred up

38: Matched pair

40: That's an order

41: Fall off, as the tide

42: Adolescent

43: Casino machines, briefly

44: Befuddle

48: Bounce like a kangaroo

49: Single thing

50: Proofreader's mark

53: Awesome!

59: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

61: Arm bone

62: Down-to-earth

63: Catch with a rope

64: Some votes

65: Galley propellers

66: 'Come on in'

67: Nimble

68: Without a stitch
Down
1: Festive affair

2: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

3: Geological time periods

4: Candidate with backing, say

5: Genghis Khan follower

6: Barnard graduate

7: What the fourth little piggy had

8: Observed

9: Faux follower

10: Lubrication container

11: Turn on an axis

12: Transmit

13: Upper hand

21: Goes bad

22: Top hat accompaniment

26: Auction offering

27: Cover story

28: Future tulips

29: Material for khakis

30: Bon or won follower

31: Preceder of box or light, in slang

32: Sudden outpouring

33: Small birds

34: Produced offspring

38: Musical speeds

39: Where to find a browser

40: Stove-heated presser

42: Excessively

43: Didn't come home standing up

45: Fondue dip

46: Bunsen ___ (lab device)

47: Not relaxed

50: Either of the racing Earnhardts

51: Sparkle

52: Grocery shopper's reference

54: Creatures of habit?

55: Hoof-on-pavement sound

56: Bridges or Brummell

57: Piecrust ingredient

58: Apart from this

60: Easter preceder?




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