Crossword for Sat, 31/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Take one's cuts

4: Fauna's partner

9: It's a drag on a gown

14: Long time

15: Photocopier ink

16: Surpass in performance

17: Birth certificate notation

18: 'Our father'

20: Mausoleum

22: Super stars

23: 'To each ___ own'

24: Some dairy sticks

26: Grommet

28: Nearly all ''American Idol'' auditioners

31: Blow a fuse, say

34: Beach scavenger

35: Dance part?

37: White Stripes, for one

38: Not right

41: Sincerely zealous

43: Welcoming gift on Maui

44: Tag players

45: Patronize a fine restaurant

46: Soft buckwheat dish

48: Horror film creature, maybe

52: Snaky swimmer

55: James Dean's persona

56: Suffers from

57: Extended and dramatic narratives

60: Still in play

61: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

64: Garbage bag closer

65: Go along

66: Allowance-earning task, perhaps

67: List abbr.

68: In a reserved way

69: Shaped with an ax

70: 'The Catcher in the ___'
Down
1: Give as a gift

2: Dark circle

3: IRS workers, figuratively

4: Uploading initials

5: Deal with a shylock

6: Not fooled by

7: 'Speed' star

8: Duds

9: Excessively

10: Jamal Lewis, for one

11: 'A little thing that makes a big difference,' according to Churchill

12: Roman date

13: Easter preceder?

19: Wedding page word

21: Large African antelope

25: Lizard

27: Novice

29: Utter loudly

30: Silly pair?

32: Boil fluid

33: Little one

35: Give up

36: 'Aquarius' musical

38: Family

39: ___ culpa

40: Go wrong

42: Handrail support

47: Lodge

48: Squirm

49: __ dictum: passing remark

50: Inappropriate frivolity

51: Sheep product

53: Amethyst or tourmaline

54: Geological span

56: Like a piccolo's range

58: Food, informally

59: Withered

61: ___-relief

62: Attention getter

63: Pinot Noir or Merlot




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