Crossword for Sat, 17/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Train for a title fight

5: Starch from palms

9: Water balloon impact sound

14: Used to be

15: Curtail

16: Eurasian forest

17: Analogous

18: Unused portion

19: Knight dress?

20: P.D.Q.

22: Does' mates

23: Teetertotter

24: Busy sort

26: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

29: Dramatist's ploys

33: Hinged door fasteners

37: ___ fiber (flax, hemp, ramie, or jute)

39: Girls' books hero Nancy

40: Drive train element

41: Casting director's assignments

42: Festive affair

43: Horse color

44: Overflow

45: Informative

46: Create a yen

48: Las Vegas rollers

50: To-do list item

52: Wicker stick

57: Points on a diamond?

60: Blood vessel connected to a capillary

63: About

64: Breathing space

65: Cookie fruit

66: Time being

67: Rendered, as a compliment

68: Not having enough carbonation

69: 'Come on in'

70: Band boxes?

71: Goes out with

Down
1: Trades

2: Tea type

3: Come to mind

4: Flat rates?

5: Example of poor penmanship

6: Microbrewery offerings

7: Main point

8: Made a selection

9: Balanced states

10: Game bird

11: Peru's capital

12: Bug-eyed

13: Sailors

21: Chance occurrences

25: They may be wild or rolled

27: Chamber music instrument

28: Turned white

30: Make a line, maybe

31: They get into sushi

32: Rock gently

33: Fabled race loser

34: Neural fiber

35: Trellis piece

36: It may lead to atonement

38: Final prelim

41: St. and ave.

45: Warm, in a sense

47: Small wheel

49: Doctrines

51: Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet

53: Spats

54: Linen fabric

55: Fish tank plant life

56: They’re often out on a limb

57: Problem source

58: In the near future

59: On cloud nine

61: Wander about

62: Send sprawling





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