Crossword for Thu, 6/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Use a sieve

5: It may bite your shorts

9: Summer ermine

14: Angelic aura

15: Share a border with

16: A vital sign

17: Soothing, to the skin

19: Parting words?

20: Darkens

21: Upsilon follower

23: Nov. 11 honoree

24: Hang on to

26: Doctors

28: Answered with cheek

32: 'Seeya'

34: Drops

35: Whips up

39: Summoned

40: Pants' parts

41: Roy Innis's org.

42: Transparent quality

44: On-ramp sign

45: Savoir-faire

46: Cardboard box

47: Herb in the mint family

50: More than slow, in retail

52: Chimpanzee's hoot

53: Barrel of suds

55: 'Gypsies, ___ and Thieves'

59: Giraffe relative

61: Short-lived

64: Tea type

65: Word with beer or cellar

66: Triangular sail insert

67: Casino machines, briefly

68: Debutante, typically

69: Toss back

Down
1: '___ Loves You'

2: Metric foot

3: Slippery sheet

4: Related

5: Hurt badly

6: Beyond beefy

7: Merlot cask

8: URL opener

9: Auto option

10: Place for a rubber duckie

11: Oil source

12: Fall bloom

13: Lab jobs

18: Personal preferences

22: Detests

25: Gratified

27: Parcel inquiry

28: Wails

29: Indian housemaid

30: Fries, often

31: Wets through and through

33: 'Them' insects

35: Turns to the right

36: Libel, for instance

37: Thus

38: Observed

40: Straight-billed game bird

43: Greenhorns

44: Bawd

46: Insertion indicators

47: Roundball

48: Country bumpkin

49: Plumed hat

51: Community character

54: Sanitizer's target

56: Computer capacity, for short

57: Forepart of a boat

58: Bombay garment

60: Stewing vessel

62: Polynesian paste

63: Part of a journey





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