Crossword for Wed, 21/Dec/2011

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Across
1: Diamond weight

6: One from the heart

11: Take one's cuts

14: Quick-thinking

15: Cake component

16: 'What have we here?'

17: Expostulatory

19: Afternoon brew

20: Thin-bladed tools

21: Helios, to the Romans

22: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

23: Knight's sleeveless tunic

26: Pain reliever, e.g.

28: Electrify

29: Stitched

33: Churchill's title

34: Prohibition

35: Frost's frost

36: Bias, in reporting

39: Beat thoroughly

41: Lowercase

43: Name on the marquee

44: Community character

46: Sandwich bread

47: Sundial figure

48: Arouse great enthusiasm

49: Much teen talk

51: Some gametes

52: Allayed by satisfying

55: Stretched to see better

57: Van Gogh's love offering

58: Gallery objects

60: Duct product

61: LP measure

62: Tests for quality

67: Employ

68: Weariness

69: Grown grub

70: Debussy's 'La ___'

71: Cracks the books

72: Droopy

Down
1: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

2: Historical period

3: Backboard attachment

4: Maui greeting

5: Some choir members

6: Hgts.

7: Crew implement

8: Handwoven rugs

9: Opera hero, usually

10: Uncontrived

11: 'Fiddlesticks!'

12: Yet to occur

13: Apple polisher

18: Matzo meals

23: Dining room staple

24: Be in store for

25: Second-stringer

27: Wire diameter units

30: Milquetoasts

31: Modern form of communication

32: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

37: Like one who just fell off the turnip truck

38: Three-note chord

40: Wacky one

42: Picadors' weapons

45: Knitted garment

50: Free

52: Truth ___ (interrogation drug)

53: Expire

54: Pilotless plane

56: Appetite stimulant

59: Sandwich fish

60: '___ is Your Life'

63: Bossy's chew

64: Carp constantly

65: Chicken-to-be

66: Szechuan sauce source





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