Crossword for Fri, 28/Dec/2007

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Across
1: More adorable

6: PC bailout

9: Confuse

14: English class concern

15: Grassland

16: More correct

17: Mr. Fixit

19: Kind of candle

20: Earth remover

21: Scratch awls

23: Just released

25: Tune

26: They may be liberal

30: Unsettled

36: Loafer, for instance

37: Sensational

38: Oktoberfest souvenir

39: State highway

40: Any Roy Rogers flick

43: Element removed from gasoline

44: Bumbling

46: Fireman's tool

47: Clearasil target

48: Well thought out

51: Roe source

52: Firearm

53: Corn unit

55: Swizzle sticks, e.g.

60: Hit on the head

65: Playboy, for one

66: All ears

68: Helps with the heist

69: Slimy stuff

70: Mischievous type

71: Argon and krypton, for two

72: She may get sheared

73: Scent
Down
1: Coagulated milk

2: One working with Linux, e.g.

3: A runner may break it

4: Quaint oath

5: Own the throne

6: Shade tree

7: Geographical seven

8: Echoing dance

9: Clothes one, as for an occasion

10: Ho-hum

11: Stinger target

12: Dirty look

13: Slips

18: Bounce back again

22: Trucker's ride

24: 'Hold your horses!'

26: Canned ham glaze

27: Prefix with virus

28: Subway slug

29: Barely flows

31: Rose oil

32: Bodybuilder Charles

33: Gray-barked tree

34: Jungle vine

35: Finito

41: Firm head

42: Made anew

45: Female feline

49: Scheduled

50: Bring to a boil

54: In the '40s they were Big

55: Glitch

56: Oktoberfest horn

57: Roman date

58: Ceremonial practice

59: Put into the overhead bin

61: Short newspaper piece

62: Still in play

63: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

64: Farmer's hangout, in a children's song

67: Water temperature 'gauge'




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