Crossword for Mon, 28/Dec/2009

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Across
1: LSD, informally

5: Curly coif

9: Surveil, with 'out'

14: Application form blank

15: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

16: Excessive enthusiasm

17: Use BabelFish.com

19: Praise

20: Chicken-to-be

21: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel

22: Property claims

23: Draw aimlessly

25: More adept

27: ___ Deployment Force (one Marine division and four Army divisions)

30: Classify

33: Take off

36: Get the ball rolling

38: Life story, for short

39: Aerobat's maneuvers

40: Red or Yellow

41: Former Police man

43: Trite

44: Cottonseed source

45: Selections

46: Very small

49: Bumped off

51: Stuffs to the gills

53: 'The River Of __' (Billy Joel song)

57: Moving about

59: Circumvent

62: Tricked

63: Total

64: Vacation condo, perhaps

66: Freeway divisions

67: One working with Linux, e.g.

68: Olympic weapon

69: Loses one's coat

70: Cons' confines

71: Puppy's plaint

Down
1: Paid to play

2: Stuff in the hold

3: Grown grub

4: Remote room?

5: Like someone sawing logs, so to speak

6: Not having enough carbonation

7: Miles per hour, e.g.

8: La Scala offering

9: Appears suspicious

10: Prepares to take off

11: Lacking free oxygen

12: Pottery oven

13: Bolts down

18: Pie fight sound effects

24: Kind of coffee

26: Take one's cuts

28: ___ facto

29: Contests for two

31: Curling surface

32: Dresses nattily, with 'up'

33: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

34: Gondolier gear

35: Magnetic mineral

37: Companion of dark and handsome

41: Church toppers

42: Spork part

44: Tournament exemption

47: Hit on the head

48: Kind of fracture

50: Vipers

52: Frame

54: Wide-open

55: Edible mushroom

56: Quite high

57: Piercing tools

58: Former Iranian ruler

60: Tight gripper

61: Last word in prayer

65: Attention getter





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