Crossword for Sun, 31/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Boiled meal

5: Metric foot

9: All over the place

13: Flute or saxophone variety

14: Betray contempt

16: Conserve

17: Single thing

18: Like old bread

19: Mouse, to an owl

20: Oscar winner for 'Ed Wood'

22: Some FBI files

24: Unemotional

26: Small dam

27: Hopeless soul

29: Land buys

33: Temple student

36: Shrek's mate, e.g.

38: Quiet spot

39: Pier

41: Came across

42: 'All the world's a ___' (Shakespeare)

43: Like some excuses

44: Foul-weather overshoe

46: Guiding principle

47: Office fastener

49: Animal track

51: Camp sight

53: Most painful to the touch

56: Creed

60: Bee attractor

62: Football's contour

63: Come together

65: Tip for a casino dealer

66: State tree of Maine

67: Nasal passage

68: Harbinger

69: Wapiti

70: Quarter fraction

71: Harangue
Down
1: Injure badly

2: Arm bones

3: Time on the job

4: Show-off

5: Coming forth

6: Aardvark's tidbit

7: Honey-based liquor

8: Downstairs, on a ship

9: 'American Idol' contestant

10: Stable mate

11: Kaput

12: Piano's 88

15: Adjusts, as a trip counter

21: Snobbishly unfriendly

23: Churchill's title

25: Stuffed delicacy

28: Rod companions

30: Brat's stocking stuffer

31: Roman wrap

32: Place at an angle

33: Night birds

34: 'I beg your pardon?'

35: Buddhist leader

37: Puts the kibosh on

40: They're cold-blooded

42: Place for a summer home

44: Einstein

45: With the least delay

48: Part of a journey

50: Parish pastor

52: Gin companion

54: Small aperture

55: Captivated by

56: Lassoer's cord

57: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

58: Long and lean

59: Span's inches

61: Monthly payment, for many

64: Merlot cask




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