Crossword for Sun, 18/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Reserved parking space, e.g.

5: Decision made at home?

9: Soft palate part

14: Horse color

15: Till the ground

16: Brown-___ (sycophant)

17: VIP's following

19: Trades

20: Volleyball player

21: Wharf pest

23: Metro maker

24: Highlander's hats

26: Hold in check

28: Stretched to see better

32: Two-door car

34: Human resources employee

35: Place for a pitch

39: Help for the hapless

40: In the '40s they were Big

41: New Mexico necktie

42: Holds back

44: Snooty critter?

45: Tightly-twisted thread

46: Links great Byron

47: Width to height ratio, in movie screens

50: Busy sort

52: Utmost

53: Attention getter

55: Like a referee's shirt

59: GPA part

61: Flap

64: Western lilies

65: Caroling song

66: Puzzle piece

67: What a little bird told me

68: Triangular sail insert

69: Long lunch?

Down
1: Start to mature?

2: Geological time periods

3: Miles per hour, e.g.

4: Half hitch, e.g.

5: Toast topper

6: Morning rouser

7: Muddlement

8: Large pitcher

9: Opens up, as a drain

10: Oath

11: English class concern

12: Ostracized person

13: Match play?

18: Absolute, as nonsense

22: Shivering fits

25: Read in

27: Spoken

28: Burn to a crisp

29: Get all stirred up

30: Provides weapons to

31: Get cozy

33: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

35: Travel smoothly

36: 'Clumsy me!'

37: Potpourri

38: Dawn and on

40: Tend to the turkey

43: Most affluent

44: ___ firma

46: Annoy

47: Feeling expressed in many a Woody Allen film

48: Scatter about

49: Suffix meaning 'eater'

51: Basketry twig

54: Yin's complement

56: Uneasy tingling

57: Fortune

58: Thy, nowadays

60: She's a deer

62: Slimy stuff

63: Opposite of paleo-





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