Crossword for Thu, 24/Feb/2011

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Across
1: Looks like a lecher

6: Inscribe with acid

10: Dagger handle

14: Appetite stimulant

15: Old Italian money

16: On vacation, perhaps

17: Like forks

18: Bend, as a joint

19: Waterproof cover

20: Pays out

22: Given the ax, with “off”

24: 'PUSH FOR ___'

25: Like one end of a pool

27: Like a cat-o'-nine-tails

29: Endangers

33: Slimy stuff

34: Piecrust ingredient

35: Nurses, as a drink

37: Starbucks order

41: A white one is small

42: Asks for catnip

44: Grass in a loft

45: More shrewd

48: 'Blast!'

49: Little bit

50: It may be dry

52: They're often etched in stone

54: Changed from green to red

58: Trudge, as through sludge

59: Historical period

60: Dressmaker's tuck

62: Puts up

66: Hunk of cheese

68: Cut in half, as a log

70: Buttinsky

71: Breathing space

72: Give off

73: Web-footed mammal

74: Listened to the bears

75: It may get plastered

76: Impudent

Down
1: They may be wild or rolled

2: Film crew member

3: Unaccompanied

4: Touched up

5: Further down in the dumps

6: Yuletide worker

7: Plow the field

8: Haunted house sound

9: Spelling badly?

10: Ring toss item?

11: Be in store for

12: Type of comedy

13: Used a keyboard

21: Shaking of the earth

23: Armageddon

26: Practiced

28: Excessively

29: Misfortunes

30: Letters

31: Mouse, to an owl

32: Germ cell

36: Trades

38: Blue or potato follower

39: 'Thirty days ___ September ...'

40: Motion-carrying votes

43: Gate alternative

46: She may get sheared

47: Peel

49: Primary color of color printing

51: Pincushion flower, e.g.

53: Bodies

54: Grates upon

55: Block house?

56: June birthstone

57: Type of queen

61: Nincompoop

63: Basic beds

64: Corn-growing regions

65: Nimble

67: Four-poster, e.g.

69: Utmost





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