Crossword for Wed, 17/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Sprawling narrative

5: They may be slapped on

10: Heather

14: Signals

15: Separated

16: Brainwave

17: Java vessels

18: Portended

19: Caroling song

20: Article starters

22: Neuters, as a horse

23: Confession topic

24: Avoids

26: Ouzo flavoring

30: Strengthened, with 'up'

34: Prohibition

35: Lively Italian folk dance

38: Popular fragrance

41: Arouse great enthusiasm

42: Muddle

43: Fair

46: Quill tip

47: Tightened, perhaps

48: Cushions

51: Scimitar, e.g.

54: Just released

55: Points on a diamond?

58: Bony-plated beast

63: Fail to include

64: Object whiningly

65: Glide high

66: Harangue

67: Cutter

68: Mausoleum

69: Quaker's address

70: Laptop instruments of yore

71: Hot tubs

Down
1: Surface-to-surface missile

2: Mystique

3: Lady's man

4: Take stock of

5: Closet

6: Very familiar with

7: Vanishes into thin air

8: Impudent

9: Avg.

10: Wimbledon official

11: Object of pagan worship

12: Exigency

13: Women, to a buckaroo

21: A white one is small

22: Black flies

25: Ossuary

26: More adept

27: Like one who just fell off the turnip truck

28: Bay

29: Sunrise

31: Air Force One, for one

32: Like a Keebler spokesman

33: Paints amateurishly

36: Abacus part

37: Knocks for a loop

39: Cordial

40: Masticates

44: Time-wasting bother

45: Gives gratuitously

49: Supplied

50: Parts of good mysteries

52: Make a comeback

53: Cheerless

55: Low-quality diamond

56: Indian housemaid

57: Trig ratio

59: Assured of success

60: Roller coaster feature

61: Buddhist leader

62: Eyes

64: Unit of oil production, briefly





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