Crossword for Fri, 22/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Canine kin

6: Unhearing

10: Secretarial fill-in

14: Japanese cartooning style

15: Life of Riley

16: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

17: Type of landing

18: Tousle

19: Glasgow girl

20: Nature lover

22: Certifies

24: 'Caught you!'

25: Reaction to a hotfoot, perhaps

26: Spot

27: Morally corrupt

32: Coat of many colors?

34: Seed coverings

35: Citrus cooler

40: Perth pal

41: Indelicate

42: State peremptorily

43: Common schizophrenia condition

45: Putting to work

46: Flesh and blood

47: Teapot dwellers?

49: Pharaohs' symbol of power

52: Utmost

54: Picked up a lap

55: West End attraction

57: Rebuffs

62: Suburbanite's pride

63: Besides

65: Holy chalice of legend

66: Mocked by imitating

67: Pronounce indistinctly

68: Huge swarm

69: Goes out with

70: Spinning toys

71: Thick woolen fabric

Down
1: Stag or bull, e.g.

2: Responsibility

3: Dryer residue

4: Indian housemaid

5: Studies carefully, in a way

6: Bearings

7: Vichy water

8: Drug test

9: Decorative flower chains

10: Story by Chaucer

11: Remove graphite or graffiti

12: Tearing up

13: No longer in vogue

21: Pooh's middle name?

23: Branchlet

27: Like a dungeon

28: Segments of history

29: Part of a gas mileage rating

30: Smart guy

31: It could be dominant

33: Tenant's contract

36: Their job is taxing

37: Dollar competitor

38: Fender flaw

39: Units of work

41: TV adjustment

44: Solving aid

45: Overly conventional, in slang

48: ___ de mer (seasickness)

49: Bodybuilder Charles

50: Ess or ell

51: New World flycatcher

53: Greeting on meeting

56: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

58: Expand

59: Fabled race loser

60: Lunar effect

61: Kane's dying thought

64: Take an evening course?





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