Crossword for Mon, 12/May/2008

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Across
1: Balaam's mount

4: Beldames

8: [I'm in trouble!]

12: Electrical unit

13: Word with point or plane

14: Knight dress?

15: In a crude and unskilled manner

17: Office copy, commonly

18: Commence

19: Boxed

21: Scimitar, e.g.

22: Diet-conscious family of rhyme

24: Exclude

26: Gives up

30: Toddler's constant question

33: Eats a meal

35: Laryngeal affliction

36: Multitude

38: Fasten, as a ship's rope

40: Soft drink

41: It shows the way

43: ___ Deployment Force (one Marine division and four Army divisions)

45: A pop

46: Blanketlike cloak

48: Like forks

50: Passed, as time

52: Soothing ointment

56: Back-of-the-book list

59: Stay

60: Emulated Emerson

61: Baton wielder

64: Lightened up

65: Leaflike plant part

66: Video recorder, for short

67: Not the original color

68: Goes downhill fast?

69: Attention getter
Down
1: Accumulate

2: Tiny carnivore

3: ___ voce

4: Large group

5: Rm. coolers

6: Hoedown honey

7: More shrewd

8: Some guys in the '50s

9: Baseball VIPs

10: Old wives' tales and such

11: Cattle poker

13: Fought for decades

14: Like some frigid winds

16: Jack of 'Hawaii Five-O'

20: Vote to kill

22: More with it

23: Senior clergyman

25: Chest protector

27: Roller coaster feature

28: Fellow, slangily

29: Train for a title fight

30: Sound of a hard smack

31: Long lunch?

32: Tall tale

34: Palatable

37: Stole

39: Yang's opposite

42: Yammered, e.g.

44: Sandy tract

47: Trite

49: Title for Edith Evans

51: Kids who enjoy gamboling?

53: Gate holder

54: Curriculum ___

55: Pogo said 'He is us'

56: Overwhelmed

57: Low cart

58: Medicinal amount

59: Large predatory birds of myth

62: First zoo?

63: ___ alai




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