Crossword for Wed, 23/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Like old bread

6: Smack, as a baseball

10: Sprightly

14: Heartless

15: Word before irons or chains

16: Gives the heave-ho

17: Hilltops

18: Take turns

20: Hunt and Hunter

22: Let on

23: Capital of Phoenix?

24: Starts of sneezes

25: Elevator alternative

26: Toast topper

29: Finder's charge

30: Wedding page word

31: Flippered fish fancier

32: Tiff

34: Four-poster, e.g.

35: Endgame result, sometimes

38: Picked up a lap

40: Devil-may-___

41: Chance occurrences

44: School of whales

45: Go down

46: Green headgear in a 1968 movie

48: Splits to unite

50: Block passage through

52: Go over

53: With fewer furnishings

54: Divergence

57: Saloon suppliers

59: Type of bond or order

60: Old Italian money

61: Piece of property

62: Threshold

63: Life of Riley

64: Promontory

65: Lake-bottom navigation impediments

Down
1: Meal leftovers

2: Humerus cover

3: Spartan

4: Dirty look

5: Apart from this

6: Secret store

7: Mathematician Andrew who proved Fermat's last theorem

8: They may be liberal

9: Player's peg

10: Black-and-white zoo attraction

11: Scrutinize

12: Hit the hay

13: Fly over Africa?

19: Miles per hour, e.g.

21: In mourning

25: Words with precedent

27: Right, on the map

28: Peak stat

29: Fortune companion

32: Trellis piece

33: A pop

34: Tolerate

36: Card pack foursome

37: Pooh's middle name?

38: Sunrooms

39: Ones bearing Valentine's gifts, e.g.

42: Porky Pig's girlfriend

43: Salting away

44: Rockette?

45: Withered

46: Two-piece piece

47: Dust particles

49: New World flycatcher

50: Buys at the bar

51: Church recesses

54: Las Vegas rollers

55: Kidders tickle them

56: Ripped apart

58: Campaigned for office





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