Crossword for Mon, 23/Mar/2009

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Across
1: It may bite your shorts

5: 'Phantom...' prop

9: Devil-may-___

13: Feel compassion

14: Burn soother

15: Stupid mistake

16: Yarn-spinning

18: Beyond beefy

19: Adjust, in a way

20: Clued in

21: Routing term

22: Sonata sections

25: Colorful parrot

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

29: Easily offended

31: Some French vowels, phonetically

34: Fat on the bird feeder

35: Condensation phenomenon

36: Rhymester

39: Wrath

42: Nutmeg covering

43: Common sense

47: Run-down digs

50: Ripped apart

51: Soft drink

52: Empty ___

55: Personal quirk

56: Fix loose laces

58: Personal PC picture

60: Commercial creators

61: Estranges

64: Royal family VIPs

65: Little gull

66: State of unconsciousness

67: Circle sections

68: Right, on the map

69: Deuce topper
Down
1: Chess piece

2: Sweet potato

3: Clothes, slangily

4: Not his

5: Corrugated cracker

6: Roswell visitors, supposedly

7: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

8: Barrel of suds

9: Ferromagnetic metallic element

10: Fluidless, as a barometer

11: Benchwarmer

12: Palindromic preposition

15: Curtain call response

17: Tune

20: They're good to hold

21: Handyman's vehicle

23: Makes safe for drinking, as water

24: Responsibility

26: Archery bow wood

28: Tree fluid

30: Short newspaper piece

32: Rich soil

33: Unruffled

37: Spork part

38: Wharf pest

39: Tag players

40: Stock up on again

41: Native

44: Pitcher's cuff

45: Oar-propelled galley

46: Brief time, briefly

48: Dreamers, to lotus flowers

49: Elevator alternative

53: That's what happens

54: Campaigned for office

57: November winners

59: Ambassador's forte

60: 'Caught you!'

61: Had a bite

62: Grassland

63: Verbalize




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