Crossword for Fri, 29/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Musical Domino

5: Musical feature

9: In the near future

13: Catlike carnivore

14: Deuce topper

15: Teeming (with)

16: Wind gauge

18: Dirt, so to speak

19: Block passage through

20: Lurid

21: Lightens, as a burden

23: Word of woe

25: Station

28: Half-hearted

30: Type of pad

32: In the continental U.S.

34: Smooth transition

36: Uptight, slangily

37: Just released

38: Perfume fixative

41: Gun in the garage

44: Gravy server

45: Look-sees

48: Soon

51: Thing of the past

53: Microwave device

54: Leak slowly

56: Numbers game

57: Secret store

59: Freedom, briefly

61: Historical period

62: Hearts or diamonds

63: Still angry

67: Strongly advise

68: Run gracefully

69: Pretty pitchers

70: Exigency

71: Overwhelmed

72: Promontory
Down
1: They may be grand

2: C-worthy

3: President pro ___

4: Put into the overhead bin

5: Certain secretaries

6: Food scrap

7: Wedding page word

8: Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' word for 'scratch, dog-style'

9: Crops up

10: BowlerÂ’s target, maybe

11: Ref's call

12: Opposite of paleo-

13: Plotters, possibly

17: Navigator's need

22: Designer's studio

24: Sprawling narrative

26: Curl one's hair?

27: Chinese dynasty

29: Condensation phenomenon

31: Plods (along)

33: Waterproof cover

35: Black, to a bard

39: Bolts down

40: Run for

41: LP measure

42: Sign of a slip

43: Remnant

46: Delights

47: Some sewing machines (and clue to this puzzle's theme)

49: On one's rocker?

50: Cried out sharply

52: Sorority sisters

55: Humdinger

58: Hawaiian dance

60: '___ there, done that'

62: Daylight

64: When most children want things

65: Musclebound brute

66: Electrify




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