Crossword for Mon, 1/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Proof of pmt.

5: Metric foot

9: French wine

12: Time past

13: Add insult to injury

15: State tree of Maine

16: Holmes mantra, and a hint to this puzzle's theme

18: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

19: Pig's digs

20: Make academic

21: Meal

23: Spruce cousins

24: Conserve

25: Parish priest

28: Most of the Joint Chiefs

32: They're often preheated

33: Sigma Nu, for short

34: Abrupt bit of thunder

35: Mountain lion

36: Babe

37: Take pleasure in

38: Got grounded?

39: Crescent-shaped mountain range

40: Assumed

41: Freedom

43: Pick of the crop

44: Scratching post users

45: Cell features

46: Kind of inspection

49: After-dinner candy

50: It may be outsourced

53: Uses an ax

54: Not rifled, as a firearm

57: Hall near the quad

58: Flourless cake

59: Small birds

60: The limit, for some

61: Honey-based liquor

62: Adam of 'Batman'
Down
1: Deli loaves

2: Young horse

3: Mouse, to an owl

4: President pro ___

5: Snub

6: Choir members

7: Protective trench

8: Block passage through

9: Plastic name

10: Printing liquids

11: Digs of twigs

14: Dictators

15: Office items

17: Puts out

22: Original sinner

23: Irrational zeal

24: Pants' parts

25: Brittle aromatic resin

26: Soft palate part

27: Send payment

28: Search blindly

29: Kicking partner

30: Chad and Tanganyika

31: Exhausted

33: Does a laundry chore

36: Stretched to the max

40: Dieter's concern

42: Feline, to Tweety

43: Carried on

45: Regional flora and fauna

46: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

47: Quiet spot

48: Nimble

49: 'Don't stop'

50: ___ de vivre

51: Table scraps

52: Gold medal-winning

55: May celebrant

56: Incidentally, in Netspeak




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