Crossword for Wed, 30/May/2012

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Across
1: Macbeth's title

6: Short newspaper piece

10: Trials and tribulations

14: Screw thread, for example

15: Narrow margin of victory

16: Drive train element

17: ___ de menthe

18: Adorable

19: Attired

20: Thrillingly beautiful

23: After-dinner drink

26: Thicket

27: Time-wasting bother

28: Wrath

29: Water temperature 'gauge'

31: Smaller than small

33: Afternoon brew

34: Mag. submissions

37: Flabbergasted

41: Picked up a lap

42: Kind of moron?

43: Modern form of communication

45: Pharaohs' symbol of power

46: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)

48: Wedding page word

49: Plant products

53: Boston Pops, e.g.

56: Party at the Bates Motel?

58: Spellbound

59: Job for a grease monkey

60: Gimlet garnishes

64: Type of arch

65: Kind of coffee

66: Nail file material

67: Digs of twigs

68: On cloud nine

69: 'Ballet Rehearsal' artist
Down
1: Pot ingredient?

2: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

3: Tap output

4: Rain clouds

5: Elbow grease

6: If

7: Brags on

8: Art connoisseurs (var.)

9: Bump into

10: Eccentric

11: Primrose

12: Panaches

13: Tufted plant

21: Van Gogh's love offering

22: Star pitcher

23: Block up

24: Redacts

25: Starbucks order

30: Feed seed

32: Same-old-same-old

33: 'Don't give up!'

34: It's the word

35: In short supply

36: One going downhill fast

38: Fancy affairs

39: Film image

40: Took back

44: Grassland

45: Can opener?

46: Agree to

47: Upsilon follower

49: Cookwear

50: English class concern

51: Varieties

52: Group of eight

54: Batman's buddy

55: 'Ghostbusters' goo

57: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

61: Actress Ryan

62: Long time

63: Methodology (abbr.)




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