Crossword for Wed, 27/Sep/2006

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Across
1: Drainpipe bend

5: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

9: Cutter

14: Where the heart is, proverbially

15: Like the Atacama

16: Itching (to)

17: Word with beer or cellar

18: Soup with pasta

20: Barely manages, with 'out'

21: Historical period

22: Full of oneself

23: Sis or bro

24: Puckered fabric

26: Ditties

29: Conversion target

31: Leveling-off point

33: Cauterize

34: Musical Domino

35: '___ Loves You'

36: Baby baskets

40: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

43: Leave in, to an editor

44: Dumbo's 'wings'

47: Spa, typically

49: Arboreal carnivores

52: Joint with a cap

53: Electromagnetic wave enhancers

55: Capital of Phoenix?

56: Roof rim

58: Goof up

59: Girls' books hero Nancy

60: Trainee

63: Time past

64: Less constrained

65: Kind of column

66: At all

67: One of the Roosevelts

68: Sprightly

69: Crimsons
Down
1: Flail

2: Greenhorns

3: They're often seen on slides

4: Spot and Fido

5: Monterrey dish

6: Starting place

7: Fork features

8: Pindar product

9: Word before blocker or testing

10: Rope to catch horses

11: Trials and tribulations

12: Remote room?

13: Palindromic preposition

19: Like a runway model

24: Put into words

25: Stretch across

27: Sound of a fan

28: Take to court

30: Check

32: Fall bloomers

34: Like a fiddle?

37: Pollen producer

38: Words with precedent

39: Picked up a lap

40: Tick off

41: Marsh

42: Made tea, perhaps

45: Upbraid

46: Smiled derisively

48: Rose up

49: 'Moon River' lyricist

50: Scene from 'Cops,' e.g.

51: Singer fans and users

54: Historic river of Paris

57: Selfsame

59: Batik worker

60: Sternward

61: Start to mature?

62: Go over




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