Crossword for Thu, 8/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Bummed out

5: Listened to the bears

9: Help for the hapless

13: Life of Riley

14: Television and radio

15: Like one end of a pool

16: Spun yarns

17: Extreme pain

18: Stable mate

19: Daily reading, for some

21: Allied

22: Ewes' milieu

23: The death of the party?

24: Conical tooth

27: Frolics

29: Together (with)

30: Boasts

32: Sis or bro

34: Trig ratio

35: Mob actions

36: Quaker's address

37: Barrel of suds

38: Dispositions

39: Hose hue

40: Some French vowels, phonetically

42: Place for a sticker

43: Nimble

44: Protective embankment

46: Say something

48: Ottomans, e.g.

52: Murmurs tenderly

53: Steal

54: Body's companion

55: Grad

56: Diva's repertoire

57: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

58: Have a fling?

59: Crimsons

60: Ignore contemptuously

Down
1: Hair fixers

2: Secular

3: One working with Linux, e.g.

4: Nobel Prize category

5: Smooth transition

6: Tabu emissions

7: Pat response

8: One rotation of the earth

9: Look up to

10: Management skill

11: Marginally sufficient

12: Stepped on it

14: Photo finish

20: Pioneering video game

21: Bread pieces, to fondue

23: Bellhop's burdens

24: Amontillado container, for Poe

25: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

26: Substantive, like a solid or liquid

27: Scratching post users

28: Prolonged attack

30: Storage containers

31: Nonsense

33: Ballpark beverage

35: Trust, with 'on'

36: Teapot dwellers?

38: Cork, essentially

39: Raymond of 'Perry Mason'

41: Muscle contractions

42: Ancient Roman gathering place

44: Cube or sphere, e.g.

45: Drug-yielding plants

46: 'Flee, feline!'

47: Game on horseback

48: Kind of ant or brigade

49: Any day now

50: Bishop Desmond

51: Neatnik's nemesis

53: A long way off





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