Crossword for Wed, 26/Feb/2014

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Across
1: Reason and Enlightenment

5: Study in a panic

9: Proof of pmt.

13: Flippered fish fancier

14: 'Toy Story' cowboy

15: Sailor's greeting

16: Schemes

18: Hit bottom

19: Zoological duct

20: Pose for a pic

21: Seek cover, maybe

22: They can be heard in New York City

26: Some meet officials

28: Well-behaved

29: LP measure

31: November 21st, say, astrologically

32: Get ready for a fight

33: Letter flourish

35: Dozen for a recovery group

38: St. Louis gridder

39: Folded like a fan

41: Wharf pest

42: Pizzeria purchase

44: Edible tubers

45: Take to court

46: Greed and gluttony

48: Coping device

49: Sit before a lens

50: Position Bill Russell played for the Celtics

52: Like a pallid face

54: Meter reading

55: When most children want things

57: Have stuff

58: Shiite leader

59: Wet tracts

64: Words with precedent

65: Spine-tingling

66: Ripped off

67: Thin-bladed tools

68: Kane's dying thought

69: Pretentious
Down
1: Balaam's mount

2: Obtain

3: Van Gogh's love offering

4: Worked too hard

5: Minor player, so to speak

6: Lobster and beluga products

7: Let on

8: Occult figure

9: Least circumspect

10: Committee head

11: Swimming holes

12: Youngster

14: Spendthrift

17: Summer coat?

22: Culture media

23: Reef material

24: Express sympathy

25: Yardarm

27: Sources of inspiration

30: Aluminum silicate minerals

33: Exhausted

34: Unit of capacitance

36: VCR button pushed for a snack break

37: Spirited horse

40: A water-skier hangs on to it

43: Movie houses

47: Taste and smell

49: Object of a birthday bash?

50: Minor role

51: Spur wheel

53: Hole punch

54: Drop a line?

56: Hard or soft addition

60: In between

61: Easter preceder?

62: Morse code component

63: The limit, for some




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