Crossword for Sat, 15/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Applies lightly

5: Tubby moniker

10: Hot tubs

14: Get all stirred up

15: Profit

16: Send sprawling

17: Got grounded?

18: Threshold

19: Trust, with 'on'

20: Change

23: Wood-dressing tool

24: Table scraps

25: La Scala offering

28: Chinese house idol

29: Stamped by machine, as mail

31: Read quickly

33: Dr. No, to Bond

34: Zoological duct

35: Wrongdoer's bane

40: 'Golly!'

41: Point, as a rifle

42: Bulk

43: Football stat

46: High point

48: Gets snoopy

49: Possible prince?

50: Coping device

53: 'Boston Public' figure

57: Feel compassion

59: Up in the air

60: Roid or road follower

61: 'At what time?'

62: Ground grain

63: Kind of acid

64: Grocery shopper's reference

65: In a melancholy manner

66: Kind of calendar
Down
1: Type of queen

2: Had a virus, say

3: Intense campaign

4: Words with precedent

5: Party handouts

6: Wards off

7: Garden covers, maybe

8: Nonverbal 'Alas!'

9: Table spread

10: Goal line, e.g.

11: Canned fruit

12: Feel unwell

13: Undercover worker

21: Displays one's cheekiness?

22: Barfly

26: Brings up

27: NPR has none

28: ___ alai

29: Wild bunch

30: Slim swimmer

31: Promise

32: Holds dear

33: Not masc.

36: Label

37: A white one is small

38: Rolex rival

39: Madame Tussaud's medium

40: Shortchange

44: Dressed, informally

45: Can opener?

46: Like Dickens's Dodger

47: Burns art

49: Deluge

50: Wall Street commodity

51: Sponsorship

52: Destroy

54: Blockheads

55: Earthenware jar

56: Filthy deposit

57: Hole punch

58: McBride of 'Boston Public'




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