Crossword for Wed, 2/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Letters

5: Final prelim

9: Wool source

14: Drive train element

15: Harbinger

16: Hunt holler

17: Some votes

18: Lens holders

19: Up in the air

20: African antelopes

21: Word following eye or nose

22: Took the gold

23: One way to learn by

25: Prohibited

29: Abacus part

30: Old hand

31: Decision made at home?

32: Something for the mill

35: Table supports

37: Garbage bag closer

38: Coke's partner, at the bar

39: Benedict Arnold's crime

42: Goof up

43: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)

44: Vote off the island

45: Helpers

47: Senate votes

49: 'PUSH FOR ___'

50: Tumultuous noise

51: Verse form used by Dante

53: Picks out

57: Divot material

58: Proof of pmt.

60: Word with beer or cellar

61: Part of PABA

63: Sandpaper component

64: A runner may break it

65: Knock down

66: Communally owned

67: Short newspaper piece

68: Pretty pitchers

69: SAT part

70: Ditties
Down
1: Tropical fruit

2: Synaptic transmitters

3: Part of the small intestine

4: Landlords

5: Like some details

6: Islamic chiefs

7: In-box item

8: Motivates to do great things

9: Knitted wrap

10: Saintly attributes

11: Stretched

12: Yuletide worker

13: Stewing vessel

24: ___ voce

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

27: Eager, to the max

28: Villainous looks

30: China purchase

32: Confederate soldiers

33: Coin of Nepal or Pakistan

34: Like a good Texas hold 'em player

36: Slow critter

40: Archaeology venue, at times

41: Snail on the table

46: Disinclination to move

48: One who wouldn't mind finding roaches at home?

50: Dislike intensely

52: Teen faves

53: San Antonio hoopsters

54: Ring-tailed animal

55: Fields persona

56: Edible rhubarb parts

59: Puzzle piece

61: Tap output

62: Kitten's cry




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