Crossword for Wed, 20/Sep/2006

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Across
1: Has made the last payment on

5: Colorado ski resort

10: Read quickly

14: ___ monde (society)

15: Wall Street commodity

16: Application form blank

17: Connors of 'Mannix'

18: 'Kama ___' (Hindu love manual)

19: Figurine mineral

20: Johnny Cash, to Carlene Carter

22: Lash mark

23: Verbalize

24: Morning moistures

26: 'What have we here?'

29: Obligation

32: Crib toy

36: Soaks, as flax

38: Midnight trip to the fridge

40: Scrapes and scratches

41: Diminish

42: Barbershop band?

44: Wine of Bordeaux

45: Things in a shopping basket

47: Unload, as stock

48: Little bit

49: Screw's ridge

51: Unhearing

53: Easter preceder?

54: Gyrate

56: Hansom vehicle

58: Harness race pace

61: Gog and Magog at Armageddon, e.g.

67: Cod relative

68: Preceder of box or light, in slang

69: Steel or virgin follower

70: Nearly closed

71: Mother-of-pearl

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

73: Some votes in Congress

74: Secluded valleys

75: Glitch

Down
1: Resistance units

2: Be on standby

3: Warm in the microwave

4: Dozen for a recovery group

5: Lode analysts

6: Bolted

7: Course of action

8: Proved to be human

9: Closer

10: Winter hazard

11: Mr. Peanut accessory

12: ___ nitrate

13: Barber's call

21: Streaking, once

25: Used to be

26: Make a circle around

27: Actor Ledger of 'The Patriot'

28: Web-footed mammal

30: Nutty

31: Worn out

33: It's a drag on a gown

34: Slowly, in music

35: Gravelly glacial ridge

37: Some terms

39: Loser to Clinton in '96

43: Mollifies

46: Tree fluid

50: Preparing carrots, perhaps

52: Jack Sprat no-no

55: Knobby

57: Cries lustily

58: Comparison word

59: Indian king

60: Pretty good

62: Cats' prey

63: ___ yesterday (naive)

64: Break time

65: Roman wrap

66: Trudge, as through sludge





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