Crossword for Thu, 8/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Strong coffee, slangily

4: Nice handle

7: Jamie Farr's breakout series

11: Single thing

13: Holey treat

15: Golden Rule preposition

16: Still in play

17: Tickle pink

18: One-third of a hat trick

19: Banquet figure

22: In between

23: As a replacement

24: Cheek teeth

26: Droop

27: Close again, as an envelope

29: Rush hour phenomenon

32: Television and radio

34: Buttinsky

37: Indian maid

39: Popeye's buddies

41: ___ citizenship

42: French writer of ''The Balcony''

44: Flat-topped hills

46: The limit, for some

47: Wine sources

49: Helpful hint

51: Balanced

53: Copied without permission

57: Put up preserves

58: Foundation

61: Regretted

63: Unwanted sound

64: Solving aid

65: ___ facto

66: Punches

67: Turn on an axis

68: Bump into

69: Pivotal

70: Churchill's title

Down
1: Prefix with vitamin

2: Teamsters, for one

3: Met performers

4: Migrant worker, at times

5: Responsibility

6: Has to

7: Kisser

8: Inconsistent

9: Flight component

10: Detains

12: Lab jobs

13: Compensatory cash

14: Comes down hard

20: Sled dogs, as a group

21: Lobster and beluga products

25: Bring in

27: Gets to

28: Bolts down

29: Classic sports car, informally

30: Bluto's assent

31: Element #25

33: Title for Edith Evans

35: Acorn dropper

36: Veneer layer

38: Parsley or sage

40: Biting productions

43: Baby powder

45: Business letter addressees

48: Unskilled laborers

50: Ways to go

51: Cotton fabric

52: Moderate gray

53: Persistently annoying

54: Uses elbow grease

55: Weariness

56: Discourage

59: Castle in a board game

60: Pleasant French resort?

62: Morse code component





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