Crossword for Fri, 29/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Trades

6: Family nickname

10: Besides

14: Brightly colored bird

15: Yokel

16: Brilliant stroke

17: Title for Sam of government

18: Keeps from squeaking

19: Like lemons

20: 'Golly!'

21: Ornaments that resemble diamonds

24: Pep (up)

26: Spoil

27: Furrow filler on a farm

29: Less populated

33: Tuckers out

34: Bars or bolts

35: KO caller

37: Cheese with a red coat

38: Roadside distress signal

39: Stuff to the gills

40: Furry friend

41: Log-transport channel

42: Television and radio

43: Ushers to another row

45: More spirited

46: Actress Ryan

47: Mysterious

48: MAKEUP

53: For ___ the marbles

56: Cornerstone datum

57: Subdivision divisions

58: Sine, cosine, or tangent

60: Unused portion

61: 'Get a load of that!'

62: Yet to occur

63: Barely manages, with 'out'

64: Help for the hapless

65: Man on a mission
Down
1: Confident to an extreme

2: Gradual decline

3: Quicken

4: Spanky, to Alfalfa

5: Sudden turns

6: Often-pulled muscle

7: Archaeology venue, at times

8: Up to the task

9: Salt who passes the salt, e.g.

10: Role players

11: Deal with a shylock

12: 'Natch!'

13: Goes for

22: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

23: Sailors

25: Footnote word

27: Blended-family prefix

28: Kind of down

29: False things

30: Contaminant-free

31: Uprooted

32: Fix loose laces

34: Slattern

36: Claustrophobia, for one

38: Microorganisms' locomotion

39: Final prelim

41: Charges for admission

42: Femme fatale

44: Common sense

45: Firearm

47: They may be calculated

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

49: Be a stinker

50: Life of Riley

51: It may be Olympic-sized

52: Bit to split

54: False witness

55: Prospector's bonanza

59: 'Caught you!'




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