Crossword for Mon, 25/Dec/2006

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Across
1: June celebrants

6: Quilting parties

10: Hardly hale

13: Soccer position

14: Miles per hour, e.g.

15: Cry over spilled milk

16: Funny business

17: They make do without

19: Exalted happiness

21: Cubicle fixtures

22: Touch of winter

23: Hideaway

25: Duly appointed agent

30: Slow musical movements

34: Deal with a shylock

35: Historical records

37: 'Shogun' sash

38: Ankle bones

40: Family man

41: Something to believe in

43: Some gametes

44: 1970s dance clubs

47: Pyramid bottom

48: Had a premonition

50: Shook

52: Quarterback's call

54: Long time

55: Butcher's leavings

58: Hairy creepy crawler

64: Maritime

66: Obeys a comma

67: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

68: Fly alone

69: Exit, to P.T. Barnum

70: Trite

71: Youngster

72: Vague perception

Down
1: Depleted

2: ___-tat

3: Got grounded?

4: Preparing carrots, perhaps

5: Verse form used by Dante

6: Pitt of 'Ocean's Twelve'

7: Stand for a portrait

8: List abbr.

9: Most rundown

10: Colored eye part

11: Fortune

12: Minus

13: Debatable gift

18: Little gull

20: Overturns

24: For ___ the marbles

25: Choir members

26: Dry white Italian wine

27: Wrap in the kitchen

28: November winners

29: Represent onstage

31: Like Schubert's music, e.g.

32: Beyond beefy

33: Put into position

36: Worshiper

39: Utopian

42: Fall off, as the tide

45: Passports, e.g (abbr.)

46: Sonora shawls

49: Tiff

51: Handle

53: Emulate a hunter

55: Not fooled by

56: Miss the mark

57: Back in business?

59: Burn soother

60: Chance to play

61: Takes advantage of

62: Add-on for Congo

63: Balaam's mount

65: Coquettish





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