Crossword for Thu, 24/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Boat sections

6: Bums change

10: Avg.

13: Mountaintop homes

15: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

16: Old hand

17: Bad smell

18: Flowering cacti

20: Fails under pressure

22: Black band of mourning (Var.)

23: Happy companion?

25: Voted in

27: ___ culpa

28: Secretarial fill-in

30: Balaam's mount

31: San Antonio hoopsters

33: Padrone

35: Tag players

38: Fries, often

39: Scoots

40: Some votes

42: Pharaohs' symbol of power

43: Some intestinal divisions

44: Bristles

45: Merlot cask

47: Fruit for flavoring gin

49: Long time

50: New hire

54: Blue-pencils

56: Small brooks

57: 7-Up alternative

59: Put off

61: Menace

65: Soup veggie

66: Reason and Enlightenment

67: Dire

68: Methodology (abbr.)

69: Dessert wine

70: Where Old Man River makes his deposits
Down
1: Faux follower

2: Out of work? (abbr.)

3: Unwrought iron

4: Recoil

5: Confidential matters

6: Luxuriate at the beach

7: Remove graphite or graffiti

8: Job for the Blues Brothers

9: Chutney and cranberry, for example

10: Jack of nursery rhyme

11: Figure of speech

12: Supplied medicine to

14: Ess or ell

19: 90°, for 1

21: Symphony crasher?

23: Brown pigment

24: Glorifies

26: Glasgow girl

27: Mag. submissions

29: Facial astringent targets

32: Cold-blooded one

34: Less fresh

36: Schlepped

37: Company bought by Kmart

39: Patronize a fine restaurant

41: Red or Yellow

44: Saw red

46: Click open

48: Drops

50: Game keepers?

51: Life of ___

52: Wanted poster word

53: Any acetate, chemically

55: 'You've got some ___!'

58: Pain in the neck

60: In the past

62: Slim swimmer

63: Gallery objects

64: Afternoon brew




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