Crossword for Thu, 4/Sep/2008

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Across
1: Anxieties

6: Shrek, e.g.

10: After-school group

14: Old-womanish

15: Tiniest protest

16: Roll call response

17: Cooked salad

19: Roid or road follower

20: Building wing

21: Employ

22: 'Sincerely,' and others

24: Props for fops

26: Many, many moons

27: Tall story?

30: Highway guides

35: Like a shirt from the dry cleaner

37: Picked up a lap

38: Nitty-gritty

39: Way of thinking

41: Opposite

43: Olympic weapon

44: Fare for the toothless

46: Ostrich or emu

47: Buns or bums

50: Send, as to a specialist

51: Container

52: Woodland deity

54: Unemotional

57: Original sinner

58: Wild bunch

61: Angelic aura

62: The study of insects

66: Kind of acid

67: Warm, in a sense

68: Market place

69: Ripped off

70: Have a fling?

71: Celebrations

Down
1: Investigator's assignment

2: Uptight, slangily

3: Lunar valley

4: Shade tree

5: Red or Yellow

6: Works

7: Beginning

8: Pinot Noir or Merlot

9: Where the tremor is worst

10: Ship's clock

11: Meadows

12: Strongly advise

13: Quilting parties

18: Firearm

23: Cut off

24: Concrete wall segment

25: Card pack foursome

27: Used a bombsight

28: Tommyrot

29: Photocopier ink

31: Long-nosed fish

32: Letter flourish

33: Sample, as the soup

34: Operate the rudder

36: Minor, probably

40: Ancient mariner

42: Change

45: They were spent in Spain

48: Sundial figure

49: Relishes

53: President pro ___

54: Bolted

55: Tropical root

56: Potpourri

58: Greatest amount

59: Get an eyeful

60: Tournament advantages

63: Opposite of paleo-

64: Loutish fellow

65: A white one is small





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