Crossword for Fri, 12/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Improvises like Ella

6: Give this for that

10: ___-tat

14: Ear-related

15: Blast furnace fuel

16: Not his

17: Tropical lizard

18: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

19: Colored eye part

20: Appraisal

22: Pleasant French resort?

23: Suffers from

24: Acts like a skunk

25: Answered with cheek

29: Confederate soldiers

32: Helps with the heist

33: Appeasing

37: Some intestinal divisions

38: Gas meter, for one

39: Chamber music instrument

40: Lots

42: About

43: Loan shark's offense

44: Tops

45: Room with a number of wives

48: Choose

49: Browser function

50: Like Ptolemy's universe

57: Falling-out

58: Got grounded?

59: Destroy by degrees

60: Proofreader's mark

61: Sea spot

62: Place for tanning

63: Litigates

64: SAT part

65: Process ore

Down
1: Sprawling narrative

2: Signals

3: Circle sections

4: Attempt at filming a scene

5: Goes over the brim

6: Flimflams

7: Became threadbare

8: Analogous

9: Fen fuel

10: Imitation diamond

11: Eagle's nest

12: Treat alternative

13: Dunderheads

21: In mourning

24: Scandinavian rug

25: Uttered

26: Up to the task

27: Goes out with

28: Some museum pieces

29: Viscous

30: Shoddy clothing

31: Star pitcher

33: Weak poker hand

34: Alpine climber

35: What the fourth little piggy had

36: Catches on to

38: Bearded African grazer

41: Mao follower?

42: Relevance

44: Musclebound brute

45: Buffalo bunches

46: 'Farewell, François!'

47: Biathlete's burden

48: Group of eight

50: Pony pace

51: Apart from this

52: Keeps from squeaking

53: Monorail unit

54: Butler, for Gable

55: Object of pagan worship

56: Quarter fraction





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