Crossword for Sat, 7/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Toss back

5: Ancient Egyptian emblems

9: Help for the hapless

13: Mr. Peanut accessory

14: Errors

16: 100-0, e.g.

17: Golden Rule preposition

18: Long-tailed songbird

19: Bishop Desmond

20: Works

22: Set the boundaries of

24: Down-to-earth

26: Dogwood dropping

27: Congressional assemblies

31: Wild guesses

34: Feed seed

35: Hints of rain

37: Improvises like Ella

39: 'Blast!'

41: Transactions

43: Family follower?

44: Paid to play

46: Buttinsky

48: Two-piece piece

49: Letter flourish

51: Raucous

53: Cat call

55: Ballpark beverage

56: Selected at random

61: They go into drives

64: Bolted

65: More correct

67: Old-fashioned conveyance

68: Roll call response

69: Flare out

70: Ripped apart

71: Mouths, slangily

72: Antitoxins

73: What some writers work on
Down
1: Surface-to-surface missile

2: Gradual decline

3: Frequently traveled highway

4: Hollow rocks

5: Pharaohs' symbol of power

6: Didn't come home standing up

7: Main part?

8: Tell, as secrets

9: Dig discovery, perhaps

10: Galoot

11: Remote possibility?

12: Many a retired thoroughbred

15: Filthy abodes

21: Uttered

23: Bathroom rugs

25: Jack of 'Hawaii Five-O'

27: Soft drink

28: Merits, as compensation

29: Some votes

30: Reaches across

32: Sportscaster Red's short leap?

33: FCC flouter Howard

36: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

38: Place for the catbird?

40: Problem for home sellers

42: Gather on a surface

45: South Beach, e.g.

47: Like the fabled piper

50: Knox and McHenry

52: Certain believers

54: Distorts

56: Like burnt briquettes

57: Flightless bird

58: Baby-feeding finale

59: Have the final say

60: Cornerstone datum

62: Devil-may-___

63: Lip-___

66: Scandinavian rug




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