Crossword for Fri, 25/May/2007

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Across
1: Points on a diamond?

6: Centers of activity

10: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

14: Slow to act

15: Jack-in-the-pulpit

16: After-school group

17: ___ firma

18: Mostel of 'The Producers'

19: Without expending much energy

20: Darling

22: Computer capacity, for short

23: White Stripes, for one

24: Revered monuments

26: Eyeball

29: Secretarial fill-in

32: Feed one's face

33: Tenant's contract

35: Anguish

40: Thpeak like thith

41: Future stallions

42: Flightless bird

43: Italian appetizer

45: Kind of fee

46: Louse egg

47: Stretch across

49: Whimsical

50: Ill temper

54: Hardly hale

56: ___ nitrate

57: Chief plotter

63: Cause of a Macy's riot?

64: Fluish feeling

65: Tolerate

66: Qualities of the conceited

67: Morse's creation

68: Signet

69: Juniors, usually

70: Long haul

71: In a rush

Down
1: Smithereens

2: Freshly

3: Withered

4: Proved to be human

5: Court matter

6: Treat a pledge poorly

7: Ammonia compound

8: Raymond and Aaron

9: Comedy brothers of TV

10: 'Pirates of the Caribbean' weapons

11: In the past

12: Stick out

13: Immeasurable depth

21: Garden tool

25: Wharf pest

26: Earthenware jar

27: Curb

28: ___ fiber (flax, hemp, ramie, or jute)

30: Conductance units

31: Trapper's collection

34: Lacking courage

36: Capping

37: One wearing the apron strings

38: Roll call response

39: 'No problem!'

41: Niagara Falls, e.g.

44: Corkscrew-tailed animal

45: Let loose, as the dogs

48: Feel unwell

50: Hyacinth holders

51: Grown grub

52: Fishline material

53: Extreme hardship

55: Lips, in Latin

58: Without a stitch

59: Nerd's friend

60: Excavates

61: Browser function

62: Trust, with 'on'





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