Crossword for Wed, 23/May/2007

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Across
1: Hit or miss

5: Graceful young woman

10: Pillow cover

14: Pretty good

15: Sparkling topper

16: Lion's pride

17: Southpaw

19: Pond organism

20: Banana oil and others

21: Screen ingenue

23: Swindle

26: Narrative

27: Pinch hitters

31: Sticky substances

33: Recruit

36: Time for kickball, maybe

41: Unhappy prisoners, at times

42: Soft goatskin leather

43: Adjust

44: Suggestive of an idyll

45: Flower part

47: Long-necked instrument

48: River transport

52: At attention

55: Sweet potato

57: Stands near those who sit

62: Akebono's sport

63: Western

66: Hearty meal

67: Did superbly

68: Clearasil target

69: Deep desires

70: Ditties for the deity

71: 'That was close!'

Down
1: Mouselike farmland pest

2: Barely manages, with 'out'

3: Piece of water sport equipment

4: Memory morsel

5: Secret store

6: Yang's opposite

7: Male youth

8: Magic word

9: Stag

10: TV spy Maxwell

11: Hunt holler

12: Cause of an outburst

13: Substantial

18: 9 - 5, e.g.

22: Maintain

24: Reason and Enlightenment

25: Dr. No, to Bond

27: Antitoxins

28: Single thing

29: Rorschach image

30: In ___ (unmoved)

32: Lions and Tigers and Bears

34: Dojo VIP

35: Family follower?

37: 'Far out!'

38: Non-clashing color

39: 'Flee, feline!'

40: Pump part

42: Stag or bull, e.g.

44: What golfers try to break

46: 'Neato!'

48: Mike of the Stanley Cup-winning New York Islanders

49: Intense

50: Variety of noodles

51: Waxes

53: Relinquishes

54: Menlo Park monogram

56: Snack

58: Go postal

59: Inscribe with acid

60: Bowling alley

61: Did in, old-style

64: Dot follower

65: Quaint lodging





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