Crossword for Thu, 22/Feb/2007

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Across
1: Indian music

5: Lip-___

9: Bryce and Zion

14: Movie detective Charlie

15: Term of enlistment

16: Part of PABA

17: Station

18: Like Dorothy's slippers in 'The Wizard of Oz'

19: Lacking backbone

20: Prepares for printing

22: Low bathroom fixtures

23: Eyelid attachment

24: Greed and gluttony

25: Seasonal songs

28: Secures a sword

32: Rewrite for a film, say

33: Glide high

34: Talk foolishly

35: Limb's partner

36: Collar inserts

37: Word before blocker or testing

38: Came across

39: Acorn droppers

40: Flogged, Singapore-style

41: They're in detective novels

44: Poison arrow poison

45: Baikal is the world's deepest

46: Low-quality diamond

47: Makers of tortes and tarts

50: Pronounces guilty

54: Dolphins' home

55: Castle in a board game

56: Break time

57: 'We hold ___ truths...'

58: Primordial sludge

59: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

60: Promoted to excess

61: Ran in the wash

62: Trudge, as through sludge

Down
1: Proof of pmt.

2: Sailor's greeting

3: Fight for breath

4: Oryx, e.g.

5: Kind of fracture

6: Salad days

7: Gists

8: Blubber

9: Thin coating

10: In the thick of

11: Frost's frost

12: Make a sweater, perhaps

13: Repairs the outfield

21: Shaker contents

22: Oktoberfest servings

24: Revolutionary rebel Daniel

25: Placates

26: 'Farewell, François!'

27: Rapid transits?

28: Wets thoroughly

29: 'Laughing' predator

30: Cafeteria customer

31: Sturdy hand shovel

33: New South Wales, for one

36: Punches

37: Slings Singapore slings, say

40: Coagulated milk

42: Earn a smiley face

43: Came by honestly

44: Knocked on the head

46: Hooch

47: This one and that

48: Throbbing

49: Hang on to

50: 'Far out!'

51: Work hard

52: De ___ (from the beginning)

53: Glitch

55: Hold up





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