Crossword for Fri, 15/May/2009

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Across
1: Secretary's stat

4: Silly pair?

8: Bar

11: Robin of Sherwood

13: Implements

15: Arrive

16: Mercury or Saturn

17: Noah's ark measurement

18: PDA entry

19: Takes a tumble, at times

21: Take back due to nonpayment

23: Calf meat

25: River residue

26: Devious answers

30: Placated

34: Wharf pest

35: Pilfers

37: Crystal-lined rock

38: Insincerely fluent

40: Loud bursts

42: Beat the tar out of

43: Egg-shaped

45: Berlin's 'Blue ___'

47: It may be passed on the Hill

48: Past and present

50: Stems (from)

52: Call a cab

54: Plumb crazy

55: Perfect

60: Sailor's sleeping space

63: Brilliant stroke

64: Clergyman's audience

66: Civil unrest

67: Centers of activity

68: Lively outing

69: Joke object

70: Kind of moron?

71: Secretarial fill-in

72: Swab
Down
1: 'I beg your pardon?'

2: Rain cats and dogs

3: What makes one tick

4: List abbr.

5: Look sullen

6: Earring spot

7: Errors

8: English poet Alexander

9: Baseball VIPs

10: Uses a bookie

12: Knuckleheads

14: Unflinching

15: Moved to protect the king

20: Travel smoothly

22: Smelting residue

24: Roller coaster feature

26: Grain fungus

27: Flow regulator

28: Some votes

29: Surveil, with 'out'

31: Temporary delay

32: Draw out something latent

33: Items in red

36: Not very likely

39: Chessmen that move diagonally

41: Flippered fish fancier

44: Pricey

46: 'I'm better than you' sort

49: Window parts

51: Sour

53: Bounded

55: Sound on the rebound

56: Cajun cooking thickener

57: Like Dorothy's slippers in 'The Wizard of Oz'

58: Foal's father

59: Tobacco pipe part

61: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

62: URL opener

65: 'Sure thing'




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