Crossword for Mon, 31/Oct/2011

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Across
1: Night birds

5: Stepped on it

9: Hunk of cheese

13: 'I beg your pardon?'

14: New Zealanders, familiarly

16: Drug unit

17: Pleasant French resort?

18: Slow to act

19: Mischief-makers

20: Exhausted

22: Enormousness

24: Scoundrels

26: 'Uh uh'

27: Salutes an honoree

29: 10 Downing Street, for one

33: Gallery objects

34: Word before crust or hand

36: Dubbed

38: Speaker's place

40: Leg crossers

42: Blue fish in 'Finding Nemo'

43: Porter's beer

45: Long-tailed songbird

47: Some gametes

48: Dresses

50: Partook (of)

52: It's heard in a herd

53: Agent's take, maybe

54: Swing

59: One-edged sword

62: Ditties

63: Extreme pain

65: Ranger Smith's cartoon nemesis

66: Head for the hills

67: Steep in wine

68: Units of work

69: Scatters seeds

70: Got larger

71: Kind of calendar

Down
1: Has made the last payment on

2: Blender button

3: Jagged wound

4: Certain secretaries

5: Biathlon need

6: Sonar echoes

7: Large pitcher

8: Like some straits

9: One with a close shave

10: Margarita flavoring

11: Crescent-shaped mountain range

12: Padrone

15: Easel, e.g.

21: Bishop Desmond

23: Mountain lake

25: Get a glimpse of

27: Insignificant amounts

28: Speak formally

29: Sponsorship

30: Kind of coffee

31: Not rifled, as a firearm

32: Start the match

35: English poet Alexander

37: Pair

39: Conjectures

41: Something to build on

44: Wrench, e.g.

46: Prepares leather

49: Ropes with weights attached

51: Supported

53: On pins and needles

54: Blockheads

55: Farm tower

56: Rowing team, e.g.

57: Bug-eyed

58: Term of enlistment

60: They're beaten in the kitchen

61: Take a chance

64: Archery bow wood





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