Crossword for Tue, 29/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Flute or saxophone variety

5: Ripped apart

9: Total

14: Roller coaster feature

15: Envelop

16: Cornball

17: Stuffed tubes

19: Spine-tingling

20: Character assault

21: Pronounce indistinctly

23: Balaam's mount

24: To-do list item

27: Kind of column

29: Stage of advancement

34: Had a bite

35: Farm tower

36: Chipped stone

38: Make a line, maybe

40: Unwanted sound

42: Sound on the rebound

43: Russian villas

45: Play like a puppy

47: Shape with cutting blows

48: Wrongdoer's bane

51: Flightless bird

52: Indian maid

53: Choose

56: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

58: About

62: Morning rouser

64: Ruthless

67: Flourless cake

68: Bailiwick

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

70: Radar reading

71: Genie's place, in lore

72: Tobacco pipe part
Down
1: Help for the hapless

2: Rich soil

3: Musical pitch

4: Sleep-inducing medication

5: Slam dunk point count

6: Food scrap

7: Snitches

8: Play postscript

9: Cabbie's question

10: Garden tool

11: Gumbo vegetable

12: Island souvenirs

13: Spots

18: Game for high rollers

22: Tasteless

25: Old maid

26: Drug unit

28: Pump part

29: Soda insert

30: Instruct

31: Bête ___

32: Suitable position

33: Airwaves

34: Include

37: 'In what way?'

39: Sound from a fan

41: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

44: Embarrassed

46: Cop game

49: Not of the cloth

50: Makes like a dervish

53: They may be wild or rolled

54: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

55: Weight allowance

57: Mystique

59: Word with beer or cellar

60: Elevator car

61: Bit to split

63: Map abbr.

65: President pro ___

66: Dance like Hines




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