Crossword for Tue, 4/Dec/2007

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Across
1: A pink one means trouble

5: Vexes

9: Take out or in

14: Gradual decline

15: Maître d's offering

16: Depart

17: Snared

19: Soup can wrapper

20: Van Gogh's love offering

21: Prominent features of Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante

22: Loan shark's offense

23: Steinway output

25: Alpine aria

27: Think tank output

30: Participates in the Tour de France

33: Spot to park

36: Adam of 'Batman'

38: Personal quirk

39: Spies

40: Sound of a fan

41: Small aperture

43: Away from the office

44: Rookie

45: Editor's insertion symbol

46: Passé ailment name

49: Barbershop band?

51: Shore birds

53: Puts up

57: It can get you down

59: Ultraviolet ray absorber

62: Crude abode

63: Lucky strikes

64: Lay waste

66: Exposed

67: Jack-in-the-pulpit

68: One working with Linux, e.g.

69: Artist's plaster

70: Unspecified amount

71: '___ there, done that'
Down
1: Win them all

2: Island near Molokai

3: IV part

4: A pop

5: Wear out one's welcome, e.g.

6: Sales staff members

7: Joint with a cap

8: Like a bubble bath

9: Refer indirectly

10: Like many business cars

11: Reader of punch cards

12: At all

13: Trust, with 'on'

18: Battery terminals

24: Pleasant French resort?

26: Choose

28: Off course

29: Company bought by Kmart

31: Margarita flavoring

32: 'Flee, feline!'

33: Cause of a bad air day

34: Rain cats and dogs

35: Pilot's data

37: Whiskey measure

41: Groups of twenty

42: A runner may break it

44: Half a score

47: Martin's costar in 'The Jerk'

48: Magic word

50: Designate again

52: Ice cream concoctions

54: Go after

55: Private pupil

56: FCC flouter Howard

57: Drain problem

58: Raise, as an anchor

60: Mostel of 'The Producers'

61: Egg, classically

65: Place for a rubber duckie




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