Crossword for Sat, 28/Feb/2009

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Across
1: In the manner of

4: Bodybuilder Charles

9: Trellis piece

13: Political gossip, at times

15: Heartburn cause, often

16: Strong cotton

17: Slow down

19: Play like a puppy

20: Pitcher's pitch

21: Prefix with virus

23: Basketry twig

25: Ovarian hormones

28: Cascades and Tetons

30: Suffers from

31: Nurse, as a zombie

32: Large pitcher

33: Way off

36: Piece with a purpose

38: Nez Percé breed

41: Wordsworth's weather

44: Dirty look

45: Cass Elliot, once

49: Feed seed

50: Starts of sneezes

52: Temper tantrums

54: Most dismal

58: Squadrons

59: Brittle

60: Groups of staff officers

62: All that's seen of the Wizard of Oz, at first

63: Influence beforehand

67: Players may up it

68: Type of bond or order

69: Run for

70: Turns red, perhaps

71: Pretty pitchers

72: One rotation of the earth

Down
1: Include

2: A white one is small

3: 90°, for 1

4: Sailed right through

5: '... and baby makes ___'

6: Tall-tale tellers

7: Peak stat

8: ___ Leone

9: Parsley piece

10: Elsa, for one

11: NH3

12: Dance like Hines

14: Stop-and-go message?

18: Old Italian money

22: Fire engine accessories

23: Unwrought iron

24: Coping device

26: Spasm

27: Undercover worker

29: Tree fluid

34: Far from faithful

35: Tap output

37: Lack of variety

39: Still life fruits

40: Surgery sites, briefly

41: Massachusetts cape

42: Petty or grand crime

43: Retell

46: Ouzo flavoring

47: Came across

48: Balaam's mount

51: Love beads wearer

53: Mongrels

55: Helpers

56: 'Daphne' division

57: Snooty critter?

61: Medics

62: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

64: Use the oars

65: Red or Yellow

66: The limit, for some





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