Crossword for Thu, 9/Aug/2007

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Across
1: Dupes

5: Feature of a wicked witch

9: Kind of nut in 'South Pacific'

14: Burn soother

15: Indian housemaid

16: Ahead of schedule

17: Swift falcon

19: Cheerless

20: Variety

21: Mag. submissions

23: Had a bite

24: Kane's dying thought

26: Rich cakes

28: Actor whose two Oscars came in films that won Best Original Screenplay

32: La Scala offering

34: Distinctive atmospheres

35: Unpolished

39: Small songbird

40: China purchase

41: False witness

42: Car safety devices

44: Boom box, e.g.

45: Remove graphite or graffiti

46: In a lucid way

47: Point maker

50: 'Flee, feline!'

52: Carp constantly

53: Mont Blanc, for one

55: Ax to grind, so to speak

59: Earthenware

61: Insides

64: Exposed

65: Golf ball pegs

66: Group of three

67: Annoying ones

68: Put into piles

69: Stretch across
Down
1: Tree fluid

2: Microbrewery offerings

3: Dessert wine

4: Person of vision

5: Cautiously

6: Ammonia compound

7: Campaigned for office

8: The others

9: Painful hospital development

10: Van Gogh's love offering

11: Pick up the check

12: Fill with joy

13: Laptop instruments of yore

18: Argon and krypton, for two

22: Inscribed pillar

25: Gives gratuitously

27: Roomy sleeve

28: Tired adages

29: Contaminant-free

30: Bailiwick

31: Easy gallop

33: Spot and Fido

35: Misfortunes

36: Subordinate staffer

37: Tooth's partner

38: 'Aeneid' city

40: June birthstone

43: Confronts

44: Appraiser

46: Most like Solomon

47: Buttinsky

48: Have a cow

49: Looks like a lecher

51: Bring the food

54: Racetrack stops

56: What picky people pick

57: Village or hamlet

58: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

60: Gallery objects

62: Opposite of paleo-

63: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush




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