Crossword for Wed, 2/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Kaput

5: Solidified lava

11: Bluto's assent

14: Like some straits

15: Slowly, to Mozart

16: Part of a journey

17: Kind of terrapin

19: Block passage through

20: Electrify

21: '__, I'm sure'

23: Prima ___

26: American voters before 1920

27: 'Them' insects

28: Take in a wagon

30: Gets one's goat

32: Call's counterpart

33: Accumulated

36: Change

41: Engage in a smackdown

42: Grassland

44: Bedouin leaders

47: Ouzo flavoring

50: Veggie vessels

51: Cargo compartment

53: Lions and Tigers and Bears

54: Mirrored

57: 'Treasure Island' pirate

58: Josh

59: Ship's clock

64: For ___ the marbles

65: Dowager

66: Indian music

67: Old soap ingredient

68: Old anesthetics

69: Frosty's composition
Down
1: Like any number finishing with '9'

2: Winner at Caesar's palace?

3: Long time

4: Stay

5: Problem source

6: Include

7: Deli counter fish

8: 'Play It ___, Sam'

9: Beat thoroughly

10: Tip for a casino dealer

11: '__ Alligator' (Matt Dillon movie)

12: Frothy

13: Exit, to P.T. Barnum

18: Was in the red

22: Tarot suit

23: Uploading initials

24: Jack-in-the-pulpit

25: Adorable

26: Internal notes

29: Fabrics with metallic threads

30: White as a ghost

31: Opposite of paleo-

34: Gallery objects

35: Flare out

37: Plot device

38: First zoo?

39: Some intestinal divisions

40: Appear

43: NPR has none

44: Pasta or staircase shape

45: Sermon

46: Okay for consumption

48: Short newspaper piece

49: Singer fans and users

51: Sailor's sleeping space

52: Be taken with

55: Very top

56: Just one of those things

57: Soprano Lily

60: Easter preceder?

61: Summer coat?

62: Teamwork deterrent

63: Brutally frank




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