Crossword for Thu, 9/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Diamond judge

4: Amethyst or tourmaline

7: Like some details

13: What golfers try to break

14: Lobster and beluga products

16: Dark circle

17: Zircon variety

19: With dexterity

20: Strong animosity

21: Viscounts' superiors

23: Bringing up the rear

24: Colorful eel

25: Neatnik's nemesis

29: Stain, as a fabric

30: Creature that's part woman and part bird

31: Intoxicating

32: Pastrami places

33: Salt of element 53

34: Modern writers' aids

37: Fluffs (up), as a pillow

38: Basketry twig

39: Plant products

40: Youngest of the seven dwarfs

41: Preserves preserver

44: Spritzes

45: Indian lute

46: Lay macadam

47: Cut at an angle

48: Short-tailed rodents

49: Create a policy for

53: Tube-shaped pasta

55: Put out

56: Flippered fish fancier

57: Groaner

58: War horses

59: 'The Catcher in the ___'

60: 'Sure thing!'

Down
1: Support, as a ruling

2: Distress signal

3: Tout

4: In bad humor

5: Many, many moons

6: Markedly rapid

7: In a melancholy manner

8: Hematite and galena

9: KO caller

10: Morse code component

11: Hardly hale

12: One rotation of the earth

15: SWAT team specialists

18: Slice

22: Piano man Charles

24: Teen hang-outs

25: Kosher meal

26: Hideaway

27: Track figures

28: Tournament exemption

30: Lends a hand

31: Cornball

32: Items in a deejay's mail

33: Less friendly

34: Turn on an axis

35: Get the ball rolling

36: Shrubbery framework

37: Maw's partner

40: N.L. Central, e.g.

41: Bucket of bolts

42: Broad thoroughfare

43: Polymer products

45: Grape centers

46: Stewing vessel

47: Produced offspring

48: Apt rhyme for 'dale'

49: Passports, e.g (abbr.)

50: Logic circuit element

51: Take to court

52: Employ

54: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese





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