Crossword for Thu, 28/Sep/2006

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Across
1: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

5: Dark suds

9: Pesto herb

14: Follower of Mary

15: Up to the task

16: Combat site

17: Allot

19: Manuscript markings

20: Magazine copy

21: Rolling musician?

23: Verbal zinger

24: Carp constantly

26: Unwrought iron

28: Shore construction

34: Jamie Farr's breakout series

38: Tap output

39: Cement worker's tool

40: Emulate a couch potato

41: Lab bottles

43: Lambaste

44: Prickly shrub

45: Gumbo vegetable

46: Spanish monetary unit

48: Wrap up

49: Unused portion

50: They fly higher than anyone

52: Ring toss item?

54: Personal quirk

55: Freedom, briefly

58: Bounded

62: Flimflams

66: Up in the air

68: Like Jeremiah

70: Free-for-all

71: English poet Alexander

72: Soft drink

73: Cafeteria customer

74: Do a spit take

75: Barbecue accessory

Down
1: Jai ___

2: Emulates Eminem

3: Mischief-makers

4: Be plentiful

5: Take one's cuts

6: Geishas' sashes

7: Coagulate

8: Numbers game

9: More contemptible

10: Gallery objects

11: Appear

12: Wild about

13: Bringing up the rear

18: Flinches or frowns, say

22: Caroling song

25: Long-nosed fish

27: Dubai VIP

28: Relish

29: Much the same

30: Gets closer to

31: Scrapes and scratches

32: Plot device

33: Ostracized person

35: 'Farewell, François!'

36: Bias, in reporting

37: Buffalo bunches

42: It may get plastered

44: Send away

46: Cocktail hour spread

47: Little one

51: Portal

53: Take out or in

55: Like some excuses

56: Some intestinal divisions

57: Frankenstein monster feature

59: PC software

60: Stage piece

61: Drink to excess

63: Capping

64: Dress design

65: 'Flee, feline!'

67: Finder's charge

69: 'Treasure Island' pirate





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