Crossword for Tue, 29/Sep/2009

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Across
1: Behaves

5: Trudge, as through sludge

9: Back talk

13: Make a line, maybe

14: Ripped apart

15: Durable fiber

16: Stable mate

17: Like Dorothy's slippers in 'The Wizard of Oz'

18: Ruling class

19: Chowhounds have big ones

21: Kosher meal

22: Fit snugly one inside another

23: Items in red

25: ___ culpa

27: Ended a detente

31: Stepped on it

35: Attack word

37: Fixed routine

38: Tall-tale tellers

40: Wild bunch

42: Musical pitches

43: Let out, as fishing line

45: Commuter's option

47: Cistercian, e.g.

48: Threats

50: Afternoon brew

52: Noted Nehi drinker of TV

54: Summer ermines

59: Like the nose on your face

62: Star seen late at night

64: Steelworker's pin

65: Burn soother

66: Copter's cousin

67: Off the mark

68: Massachusetts governor Romney

69: Freshly

70: Naval post?

71: Keeps cold

72: Promontory

Down
1: Jingle writer, perhaps

2: Black band of mourning (Var.)

3: Garden covers, maybe

4: Short partner?

5: Progress

6: Galoot

7: Formed into a circle

8: Spewing hot spring

9: Place for a pitch

10: In the thick of

11: Something to build on

12: Person of vision

15: What jumping the gun may cause

20: President pro ___

24: Solicit alms

26: Point, as a rifle

28: Hi-fi description

29: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

30: Kind of calendar

31: Visit a run-down neighborhood

32: State tree of Maine

33: Make money

34: Most dismal

36: Corn unit

39: Certain trigonometric ratios

41: Otherwise

44: Ran in front

46: Sonnet sections

49: Deli meat

51: Had a bite

53: Thing of the past

55: Wind instrument

56: Ammonia compound

57: Biblical weeds

58: 'The ___ of Kilimanjaro'

59: British baby buggy

60: Peru's capital

61: Dollar competitor

63: Package carrier





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