Crossword for Thu, 27/Jul/2006

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Across
1: Slumps

5: Johnnycakes

10: Cheese with a red coat

14: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

15: Battery terminal

16: The Sail (southern constellation)

17: Emulsifying agent

18: Gave a makeover to

19: Boulevard liners

20: Natural ability

22: Most austere

24: Wails

26: Wharf pest

27: Start to mature?

29: Words with precedent

31: Diver's gear

34: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

35: Coal haulers

37: Viscounts' superiors

39: Band boxes?

41: Great big kiss

43: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

44: Give in

46: Hands-free ___

48: Mindless card game

49: Chamber pieces

51: Kane's dying thought

52: Wedding page word

53: Call's counterpart

54: 'Ballet Rehearsal' artist

56: Greek vowels

61: Seed used to make dal

64: Sandwich bread

65: Paycheck booster

67: Connecting point

68: Card pack foursome

69: Liturgical headdress

70: Kind of column

71: Like some excuses

72: Swings around

73: Senate votes

Down
1: Tiff

2: Pond organism

3: Soccer position

4: Lively outing

5: Law firm principals

6: Undivided

7: Acknowledges silently

8: Browser function

9: Matzo meals

10: Ultimate

11: Proofreader's mark

12: Help for the hapless

13: Naval post?

21: Digs of twigs

23: Speedway competition

25: Impress

27: 'Hamlet,' for example

28: Send payment

30: Asian caregivers

32: Row house genre

33: Fish tank plant life

36: Lay into

38: Ruing the run, perhaps

40: Boxed-set box

42: Proposers, traditionally

45: Silently sullen

47: Upper hand

50: Nor'easters, e.g.

55: Get one's goat

56: October birthstone

57: Isinglass

58: Short newspaper piece

59: Tooth's partner

60: In ___ (unmoved)

62: Brainwave

63: Minus

66: Attend





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