Crossword for Wed, 7/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Love handles

5: Plotter's output

10: Spoiled child

14: Theater section

15: Island near Molokai

16: Succulent

17: Fair

19: Besides

20: United

21: Payers of flat fees?

23: Befitting a king

26: By no means long-winded

27: Babe in the stable

31: Saw

33: Natural cutters

36: Subordinate

41: Turns out for

42: Sheet fabric

43: Like some salads

44: Pauses in verses

45: Fancy tie

47: Matter topper?

48: Succumb to pressure

52: La Scala offering

55: Sharp retort

57: Inuncting

62: Curly coif

63: Like a long speech

66: Slippery sheet

67: Razzle-dazzle

68: De ___ (from the beginning)

69: Keep an eye on

70: Pants' parts

71: Was certain of

Down
1: Took to the air

2: All-conquering emotion

3: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

4: Be flexible

5: Clearing

6: Campaigned for office

7: 'Not only that ...'

8: Spanish dish

9: Seek cover, maybe

10: Having a ho-hum attitude

11: Knuckle rapper

12: Dunderheads

13: The things there

18: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

22: Takes the tiller

24: Long-jawed fishes

25: NPR has none

27: That's an order

28: Not fooled by

29: Behaves

30: Tells a whopper

32: Tickled-pink feeling

34: Goes furtively

35: Track figures

37: Riffraff

38: Bombay garment

39: Sparkle

40: Woodwind requirement

42: Cocktail hour spread

44: Beat walker

46: Force

48: Trade

49: Biathlete's burden

50: Cookwear

51: Talked fondly

53: Top-rated TV series of 1977

54: Tune

56: Corn-growing regions

58: Nexus

59: Computer signpost

60: Center of a cathedral

61: Beam with pride

64: In the manner of

65: Feline, to Tweety





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