Crossword for Tue, 17/Oct/2006

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Across
1: Religious splinter group

5: Ballroom dance of Brazil

10: Power network

14: Group of three

15: Exonerate

16: Bridle path excursion

17: Tape spool

18: Morning rouser

19: Brainwave

20: Overwhelming victory

22: Clarence in 'It's a Wonderful Life'

23: Spot

24: With the least hair

26: Cutter

30: Common sense

32: Nomads

34: Star pitcher

35: Tune for lights out

39: Reason and Enlightenment

40: Arctic jacket

42: Fail to include

43: Triangular sail insert

44: Liable

45: Beethoven's 'Tempest,' e.g.

47: Dove rival

50: Drying-out place, familiarly

51: Less populated

54: Siamese or Persian

56: Death ___ (poisonous plant)

57: Conducts business

63: PDA entry

64: Well-muscled

65: Where to see the alphabet float

66: Stag or bull, e.g.

67: Exhorts

68: Dixie bread

69: Responded 'Not guilty'

70: Untidy

71: Deli side
Down
1: Letters on a keyboard key

2: Ammonia compound

3: Property encumbrance

4: Related

5: Like snakeskin

6: Axis foes

7: Honey-based liquor

8: With no saddle

9: Get ready for a fight

10: Blade sharpener

11: First head of Homeland Security

12: Nice thoughts

13: Gave a hand?

21: Person of vision

22: Peak stat

25: Geometry calculations

26: Indulge in self-praise

27: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

28: State peremptorily

29: Profaned

31: Convenience stores

33: It's marked with a slash

36: Indian housemaid

37: Sandwich bread

38: Thrusting blow

41: What changing the f-stop changes

46: Table scraps

48: Balaam's mount

49: Goes to the top of

51: Little rascal

52: Of the Holy See

53: More than sufficient

55: Unable to sit still

58: Fixes

59: Ancient Egyptian emblems

60: 'Far out!'

61: Sandwich fish

62: Do a spit take

64: Bleacher creature?




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