Crossword for Tue, 27/Oct/2009

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Across
1: Hansom vehicle

4: Circle sections

8: Behaves

12: Earthenware jar

13: Diving bird

14: Suaveness

16: Feels poorly

17: 'Natch!'

18: Fifer's drum

19: Seagoing speed units

21: Secretarial fill-in

23: Spherical shooters

24: Go down

25: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

27: Balaam's mount

29: Place for a pat?

30: Byte fraction

31: Morse code component

34: Like hard-to-comb hair

37: Well-ventilated

38: Unwrought iron

39: Freshly

40: Confession topic

41: “Not guilty,” e.g.

42: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

43: Stepped on it

45: Most furtive

47: Building wing

48: Tap output

49: Ring-tailed critter

50: Tournament exemption

51: Scratching post users

52: Fall off, as the tide

55: Sea spot

58: Spot of brandy

60: Like old bread

62: Double agents

64: Bailiwick

66: Spoken

67: Skate's cousin

68: X-rated material

69: Acct. summary

70: SAT part

71: Trellis piece

72: '___ Loves You'
Down
1: Subject of the biopic 'Sweet Dreams'

2: Pass out

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

4: Rm. coolers

5: Lines of travel

6: Prepares an apple, perhaps

7: Tobacco pipe part

8: It may be passed on the Hill

9: Articles on a rack

10: Oktoberfest horn

11: Put into the overhead bin

12: Acorn droppers

15: 9 - 5, e.g.

20: Turn on an axis

22: Weak poker hand

26: Wrap up

28: Pig's digs

29: Incidentally, in Netspeak

30: Container

31: Loser to Clinton in '96

32: Hematite and galena

33: Nursing need

34: Pepper spray alternative

35: Uptight, slangily

36: Drop a dime on

37: It may be financial

40: Attend

41: Seamstress's sticker

43: Verbalize

44: Responded 'Not guilty'

45: Barfly

46: Write-off

49: Device used by Richard Avedon

50: Borscht veggies

51: Christmas song

52: Home planet

53: Point the finger at

54: Hit hard

55: Mao follower?

56: Tiff

57: Pat response

59: Emulates Eminem

61: Have a fling?

63: Picked up a lap

65: Aardvark's tidbit




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