Crossword for Sat, 4/Oct/2008

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Across
1: '___ Attraction'

6: Wails

10: Provides weapons to

14: Oil source

15: Give off

16: Answering-machine sound

17: Fix loose laces

18: Lunar effect

19: Not fooled by

20: Absentminded type

23: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

26: Get going

27: Eggnog spice

28: Table spread

30: Grim figure

33: Palindromic preposition

34: Air Force One, for one

36: Type of training

38: Pest exterminators [up to 112 pounds]

42: Legendary Himalayan creatures

43: Paints amateurishly

46: Liable

49: Most recent

52: Tiniest protest

53: Not so fast

55: ___ culpa

57: Red or Yellow

58: They may be tugged at

62: Artifice

63: Owl's utterance

64: One from the heart

68: They may be liberal

69: Uneasy tingling

70: First synthetic fiber

71: Naval post?

72: Slow as molasses

73: Exhausted
Down
1: Not against

2: Tap output

3: ___ for tat

4: Dollar competitor

5: Bloodsucker

6: Parlor piece

7: Fail to include

8: Remain

9: Most austere

10: Call off, at Cape Canaveral

11: Designate again

12: Strong point

13: Water soaker-upper

21: Tune

22: Consigned to obscurity

23: Bounce like a kangaroo

24: For ___ the marbles

25: Unhearing

29: Just

31: Put down

32: Butter square

35: Grommet

37: Renege, slangily, with 'out'

39: 'We Built This City' group

40: It may be dry

41: Litigates

44: Apiary occupant

45: Resort hotel

46: Hindu retreat

47: Lung membrane

48: Salutes an honoree

50: Horseshoe maker's workshop

51: Half a score

54: Take away

56: Culture media

59: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

60: Geology subject

61: Word before opera or dish

65: 'The Catcher in the ___'

66: Bon or won follower

67: Aardvark's tidbit




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