Crossword for Wed, 22/Feb/2012

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Across
1: Insect stages

6: Soft cheese

10: Riffraff

14: Modern form of communication

15: Lunar valley

16: Drink to excess

17: Pops alternative

19: PDA entry

20: Dove's domicile

21: Menu choice

23: They may be upper or lower

26: Blubbery water

27: Female fowl

28: Former Iranian rulers

31: Chilly

32: Speaker's place

33: Float

37: Property encumbrance

38: Attache case carriers

39: Potpourri

40: Marginally sufficient

41: Biddies

42: Your umbrella, perhaps

43: Process ore

45: Vampire slayers

46: New South Wales, for one

49: Polished

50: Diamond mistakes

52: Silently sullen

53: Parade spoiler

54: Color named for a liqueur

60: Tight gripper

61: Subordinate staffer

62: Stand for a portrait

63: Kind of column

64: Type of admiral

65: Dorothy's visit to Oz, e.g.

Down
1: Soup veggie

2: Diamond judge

3: Fare for the toothless

4: Feel unwell

5: Voted in

6: Spoiled kids

7: Jambalaya grain

8: Family

9: Apart from this

10: Golda Meir, e.g.

11: Coconut product

12: Word before crust or hand

13: Parcels (out)

18: Actor Lithgow

22: Utmost

23: Contradict

24: Itching (to)

25: Ornaments that resemble diamonds

27: Date source

28: John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo

29: Pete Rose had 4,256 of them

30: Balaam's mount

32: Swordfight

34: Much the same

35: Ran a rasp across

36: Corn-growing regions

38: '___ Loves You'

42: Moved a bit

44: Debussy's 'La ___'

45: Bolted

46: Prefix for motor or control

47: It's a drag on a gown

48: Come to mind

49: More ticked

51: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

52: Baby's favorite art movement?

55: Get going

56: Van Gogh's love offering

57: Employ

58: Red or Yellow

59: Shade tree





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