Crossword for Thu, 6/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Booty

5: Soft drink

9: Expansive

13: Full of ripples

14: Essence

15: Of higher quality

16: Foreshadow

18: Lyric poem

19: American voters before 1920

20: Like some garage floors

21: Allegiance avowal

22: Hoof-on-pavement sound

24: After-dinner parties

25: Class cutters

28: Soprano Lily

29: Vital post on a ship

30: Attack from the air

32: Cartridge contents

35: Rewrite for a film, say

37: Abacus part

38: Lively outing

40: Easter preceder?

41: Uplifts

44: Colorful parrot

45: Curb

46: Another helping

48: Came down in pellets

51: Nonvulgar swearing

52: Like many business cars

53: Ball of yarn

55: Summer coat?

58: Any Roy Rogers flick

59: Eighty

61: They're often preheated

62: Gumbo vegetable

63: Figurine mineral

64: Cooped (up)

65: Banana discard

66: Hit hard
Down
1: Did the butterfly

2: Walk in water

3: Benevolent, in a way

4: Place for P.E.

5: They usually have some long lines

6: Spoken

7: Obligation

8: Fireman's tool

9: Some hollow-fanged snakes

10: Battery terminal

11: Tufted plant

12: Giant sequoias, e.g.

15: Some predatory carnivores

17: Benefit

21: Magic show exclamation

23: Genie's place, in lore

24: Trick-taking card game

25: Comparison word

26: Upgrade the decor

27: Threadlike part

31: Nonsense

32: Hard white china

33: Geek's cousin

34: Piano's 88

36: Is precariously perched

39: Till the ground

42: Spun yarns

43: Some

45: Take offense at

47: Carnation's 'contented' creatures

48: Single-masted sailing vessel

49: Depart

50: Word with worm or moth

53: Blast furnace fuel

54: Trout tempter

56: Chemical group derived from benzene

57: Barber's call

59: Dandy

60: Corn unit




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