Crossword for Thu, 31/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Misfortunes

5: Airport vehicles

9: Feel compassion

13: Palinromic ship deck

14: Had a virus, say

16: Rude person

17: Glide high

18: Rattle on

19: Gumbo vegetable

20: Aquatic mammals

22: Support

24: Three ___ to the wind (plastered)

26: Fen fuel

27: Trades

29: Kitchen accidents

33: Unit of oil production, briefly

36: Deeply absorbed

38: Last of Great Britain's King Henrys

39: Perch in a coop

41: Building wing

42: Soft headgear

43: Uptight, slangily

44: Sell to the public

46: NPR has none

47: City on the Volga

49: Nasal passage

51: Piecrust ingredient

53: Greek letters

56: Cattle drive hazard

60: Worn down

62: Jack-in-the-pulpit

63: Character assault

65: ___ Gauche

66: Perth pal

67: Tutu material

68: Peachy

69: Responded 'Not guilty'

70: Tears roughly

71: Phoenix roundballers
Down
1: ___ facto

2: Pilfers

3: Reluctant

4: Indulgent spells

5: It moves tape through a machine

6: Tune

7: Spill the beans

8: Frame

9: Like a failed space launch

10: Blast furnace fuel

11: ___ d'oeuvre (appetizer)

12: Segments of history

15: Dislike intensely

21: Keep on dunking

23: Dance like Hines

25: Lively outing

28: Popeye's buddies

30: Former capital of Italy?

31: Spun yarns

32: Gains a lap

33: Lingerie buys

34: ___ fide

35: Rich soil

37: Braid

40: Zigzagged downhill

42: Not as cheery

44: Least well done

45: Essentially belongs

48: Brutally frank

50: Baby birds?

52: Take exception

54: 'Farewell, François!'

55: 'Magnificent' movie number

56: Genie's place, in lore

57: Spoken

58: Adorable

59: Home of heroes?

61: Cubbyholes?

64: Mont Blanc, for one




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