Crossword for Thu, 7/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Provides weapons to

5: Mat wins

9: Church recess

13: Lick

14: Cut at an angle

15: Persuade, with 'over'

16: Scrawny

17: Repeated

19: Choose

20: Rip-roaring review

21: Expresses affection for, with 'on'

22: Short quality

25: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

27: Unclogged, as a pipe

28: Pooh's middle name?

30: Full circle, on the track

31: Stepped on it

32: Bombay garment

34: Section in the credits

35: It'll give you a lift

38: Dept. store shopper's privilege

41: Friend

42: Sandwich bread

45: Helios, to the Romans

46: Start to mature?

47: Boat backs

49: Gaze fixedly

51: In the continental U.S.

54: Lionel Richie hit

56: Hurried

57: Prohibition

58: Dense Amazon region

60: Ballpark figures

61: Bug-eyed

62: Siren sounds

63: Wild about

64: Cons' confines

65: Hand-held harp

66: Look narrowly

Down
1: Brothers' keepers?

2: Gets back to business?

3: Femme fatale

4: Pig's digs

5: Rub the wrong way

6: Prestigious schools, informally

7: Court divider

8: Kane's dying thought

9: Tiny type size

10: Kneecap

11: Naps in Nogales

12: Wrap up

14: Rancher's mark

18: Went by horseback

20: Oboes, e.g.

23: Shooting game

24: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

26: Liable

29: Strike

32: Marketing data

33: For ___ the marbles

34: Has a bawl?

36: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

37: Made a selection

38: Balaam's mount

39: Humble home

40: Sound of a trumpet

43: Chicago newspaper

44: Faster than adagio

46: Ill-gotten gain

47: Manuscript markings

48: Light detector

50: Hierarchy levels

52: 'They Died With ___ Boots On'

53: Market place

55: Cry of pain

58: Word before sheet or session

59: Piano man Charles

60: Lambaste





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