Crossword for Sun, 28/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Hightails it

5: Hansom vehicle

8: Change

12: Give off

13: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

14: Post-skiing beverage, for some

15: Lose strength

16: In the thick of

17: Smart guy

18: With eagerness

20: Quarterback's call

21: My girl cousin, to my mom

22: In the time left

23: Wear away

26: Quits before the king is captured

30: Sundial figure

31: Go all the way around

34: 'Get a load of that!'

35: Valleys

37: Ocean bird

38: By no means long-winded

39: Silly pair?

40: Trap in a net

42: Stitch up

43: Half a tick

45: Gift on the eleventh day

47: St. Louis gridder

48: Subject of the biopic 'Sweet Dreams'

50: Lions and Tigers and Bears

52: Conducts business

56: Swindle

57: Speedway competition

58: 100-0, e.g.

59: Church recesses

60: Is short and shy

61: Pat response

62: Part of a hammer head

63: Veneer layer

64: Did in, old-style
Down
1: Where Barry Bonds plays, briefly

2: Indian housemaid

3: Dress design

4: Breastbones

5: Joker

6: Quick-thinking

7: Main mass

8: Like stock prices, often

9: Card pack foursome

10: Large predatory birds of myth

11: Jabber

13: Type of sail

14: Promontories

19: A and B, in records

22: 'Sure thing'

23: Helpers

24: Breakfast roll

25: Small brooks

26: Autumn tool

27: Furze

28: Brown-___ (sycophant)

29: Makes distorted

32: Gradual decline

33: Coke's partner, at the bar

36: Steroid hormone

38: Waters down

40: Shade tree

41: Places to find literary titles

44: Desert refuges

46: Expensive beads on a necklace

48: Move like rush-hour traffic

49: Half of an '80s crime-fighting duo

50: English poet Alexander

51: Artifice

52: De ___ (too much)

53: Ignition ___

54: Ditty

55: Hearty meal

56: Generation separator




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