Crossword for Thu, 8/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Peacemaker's prize

5: Days gone by

9: Shady spot

14: Like burnt briquettes

15: Ballyhoo

16: Rub the wrong way

17: Use UPS

18: Curb

19: Like Cheerios

20: TV shows, e.g.

22: Long piano

23: Dramatist's ploys

24: Large pitcher

26: Morning moistures

29: Successful doctor

33: Having a ho-hum attitude

37: Gardener's coil

39: Span's inches

40: Like some garage floors

41: Overly sentimental

42: Made a donation

43: Look happy

44: ___-tat

45: Aquamarine or emerald

46: Drift down to the bottom

48: WWW programming code

50: Militarist

52: Phantoms

57: Force units

60: Old Greek fortification

63: Put back into service

64: Forepart of a boat

65: Sow's opposite

66: Rot-resistant wood

67: Cocktail hour spread

68: 'I'll catch it!'

69: Glorify

70: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

71: Read quickly
Down
1: Orzo or ziti

2: Hearth heap

3: Heartburn cause, often

4: Used a keyboard

5: Put into words

6: Motion-carrying votes

7: Barbecue accessory

8: On pins and needles

9: Orbital point

10: Change furniture around

11: Word before blocker or testing

12: Where cookies might crumble

13: Tear apart

21: Give up

25: Part of Miss Muffet's meal

27: 'Hold your horses!'

28: Kind of sayer

30: False witness

31: One of the deadly sins

32: Tape spool

33: Cranberry sources

34: Old Italian money

35: Got grounded?

36: Deductive reasonings

38: Place for the catbird?

41: Got larger

45: Insignificant upturn

47: Powerful beams

49: Clamored for Fancy Feast, say

51: Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet

53: Some univ. bldgs.

54: Kind of acid

55: Jungle vine

56: Colorado ski resort

57: Ho-hum

58: Loud utterance

59: Without a stitch

61: Mountain goat's perch

62: Repetitive routine




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