Crossword for Sun, 24/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Musclebound brute

4: Knight stick

9: Scour

14: Streaking, once

15: Viva voce

16: VCR button pushed for a snack break

17: Silly goose

20: Sort of blue

21: Amaze

22: Certifies

26: Dancer, informally

31: 'Sure thing!'

32: Held on to

34: Exclusive date

35: Offshore sight

37: Lunar effect

38: Scot-free

42: Stable mate

43: Likable

44: Scully and Smart

47: In ___ (unmoved)

48: Same-old-same-old

51: Reduces

53: Nature lover

55: Siestas

57: Last word in prayer

58: Chips

65: Fall pigment

66: In progress

67: Cry over spilled milk

68: Finishes ahead of

69: Yellow-brown

70: Balaam's mount
Down
1: Brawl

2: Sense of taste

3: Official decrees

4: Bio class setting

5: Tap output

6: Easter preceder?

7: Budget decisions

8: Redacts

9: Small piano

10: Hansom vehicle

11: Massage

12: Employ

13: Wager

18: Tournament exemption

19: Chutzpah

23: Do without

24: Drop a dime on

25: Parsley piece

27: 'Loves me not' unit

28: Weak poker hand

29: Small whirlpool

30: 'The Catcher in the ___'

33: X, mathwise

35: Signs for Nostradamus

36: Spirit in a bottle

38: Elevator car

39: Hematite and galena

40: What picky people pick

41: Without give

42: ___ de mer (seasickness)

45: Some choir members

46: Go postal

48: Whalesucker

49: Starter home?

50: Past and present

52: Jack of nursery rhyme

54: Suffers from

56: Soft seat

58: Wild bunch

59: 'PUSH FOR ___'

60: Dance part?

61: Out of work? (abbr.)

62: She's got milk

63: Many, many moons

64: Pig's digs




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