Crossword for Sat, 9/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Soft seat

5: Sums up

9: Be a cast member of

14: Football's contour

15: Hide in the shadows

16: Go after

17: Tree knot

18: Waiter's tote

19: Works the soil

20: Osculation components

22: Light bulb's place

23: Take away

24: Tick off

25: Prickly casing

28: Letting up on

30: Like the Atacama

34: Matter makers

36: Video recorder, for short

37: Major ___

38: Competitor's chance for redemption

41: Portal

43: Breakfast grain

44: Line of clothing

46: Waffle

47: Tell all

48: Fidgety feeling

51: Hither's opposite

52: Get ready for a fight

54: Sour

56: Hive members

59: Expected to move, so to speak

63: Ancient inscriptions

64: Deep purple

65: Information from Deep Throat

66: Obloquy

67: Kind of acid

68: Like some excuses

69: Attack from every angle

70: Fen fuel

71: Takes an evening course?

Down
1: Wails

2: Egg, classically

3: Casino card game

4: Give permission for

5: Gibson of tennis

6: Coercion

7: Severe

8: The limit, for some

9: Cast member

10: Word in a W.C. Fields film title

11: Sound off

12: Sea spot

13: Digs of twigs

21: Top

22: 'The Sweetheart of ___ Chi'

25: Pointed remarks

26: Holding areas for newcomers?

27: Like LXVI

29: Carp constantly

31: Early role for Clint

32: Grown grub

33: Senior member

35: Element #25

39: Buddies

40: Brooding type?

42: 'Ta-da!'

45: Ascertain dimensions

49: Tree of the mimosa family

50: Pick

53: Put a counter to zero

55: They lead to walks

56: Ho-hum

57: Yokel

58: Responsibility

60: Bridges or Brummell

61: Genie's place, in lore

62: Barely manages, with 'out'

64: Litter member





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