Crossword for Sat, 26/Sep/2009

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Across
1: City near Scottsdale

5: Rendered, as a compliment

9: Game keepers?

14: Word of woe

15: Get an eyeful

16: Spartan serf

17: Intervals

18: Peachy

19: High-ranking Boy Scout

20: Sow

23: Shaker contents

24: Went to court

25: Old hand

27: Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys?

34: Salad oil holder

35: Speedway competition

36: Printer spec.

37: 'Shall we?' response

38: Manuscript markings

40: Little gull

41: Whichever

42: Gourmand's passion

43: Be in store for

44: Hazarding a guess: doughy metaphysician?

48: Resort hotel

49: Share a border with

50: Main point

53: Jalopy

59: Nice thoughts

61: Ammonia compound

62: Every one individually

63: 'It's b-a-a-c-k!' fashion

64: Grocery shopper's reference

65: Frost's frost

66: Merest

67: Shower affection (on)

68: Did in, old-style
Down
1: Christmas trio

2: Sparkle

3: Dupes

4: Evaluates

5: Less likely to win a race

6: Ax to grind, so to speak

7: Some intestinal divisions

8: Fender flaw

9: Pooh's middle name?

10: Left brain's forte, supposedly

11: Pond organism

12: ___ tax

13: Leave in, to an editor

21: 'Heinz 57 varieties' dog

22: Extended and dramatic narratives

26: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

27: Combat site

28: Type of rubber

29: Doctrine of belief

30: Feline, to Tweety

31: Think tank output

32: Yardarm

33: Windshield treatment

34: Abrupt bit of thunder

38: Navigational aid

39: Little one

40: Birdsong makeup

42: Dandy

43: Fluish feeling

45: Banana oil and others

46: Most recent

47: Monastery resident

50: Member of the Brownies

51: ___ fixe

52: Words with precedent

54: Word heard on December 31

55: Group of three

56: One way to travel

57: Very top

58: 'That was close!'

60: Barfly




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