Crossword for Sun, 28/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Gardener's coil

5: Hgts.

9: Sonic unit

13: Shiite leader

14: Top-rated TV series of 1977

16: Like some garage floors

17: Farm tower

18: Choral composition

19: Word following eye or nose

20: New South Wales, for one

22: Marx/Engels creation

24: Honey-based liquor

26: Company dodger

27: Bermuda and bamboo, for two

30: China piece

34: Campaigned for office

35: Looks bored

38: Rolling musician?

39: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

41: Train lines?

43: Inning enders

44: Bouquet

46: Blemishes

48: Louse egg

49: Haunted house cry

51: Hard and soft mouth parts

53: Song of tribute

56: Made a donation

57: Fool

61: Exposes

64: ___ fixe

65: Gets ready to be shot

67: Uneasy tingling

68: 'To Renew America' writer Gingrich

69: Not do openly

70: Old wives' tales and such

71: Women, to a buckaroo

72: Get a glimpse of

73: Common tater
Down
1: Boo accompaniment

2: Fail to include

3: Terrestrial amphibian

4: Hams it up

5: Get ready for a fight

6: Machine with a shuttle

7: Add up

8: Minutes taker, perhaps

9: It's slower than allegretto

10: Ditties

11: Coagulate

12: Shot in the arm

15: Time on the job

21: 'No problem!'

23: Charges for admission

25: Pricey

27: Ganja

28: Dressing choice

29: Mop up

31: What the letter C is?

32: Free from restraint

33: Annoying ones

36: Diddly-squat

37: Sow's sustenance

40: Fragments

42: Kind of beetle

45: Dark greenish blue

47: Hunk of cheese

50: Retains

52: Serves

54: Square things

55: Prominent features of Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante

57: Tell all

58: Brainwave

59: Whimper

60: Tide type

62: Non-clashing color

63: Let fall

66: The limit, for some




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