Crossword for Wed, 3/Jan/2007

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Across
1: 'The Situation Room' journalist Blitzer

5: Softens, as lights

9: Separated

14: Object of pagan worship

15: Brainwave

16: Happen again

17: Religious retreat

19: 'Inferno' division

20: Influence beforehand

22: Pain in the neck

23: Late-night host Leno

24: Teamwork deterrent

26: Exclude

29: Dull knives

35: Biz bigwigs

36: 'Toy Story' cowboy

37: Chart shape

38: Shrink from

39: Healing salves

40: Wander

41: Like any number finishing with '9'

42: Female demon

43: Kosher meal

44: NBC?

46: Equals

47: Bluto's assent

48: Pester for payment

49: Circle sections

52: Ridiculed

59: Like many chimneys

61: Submarine's viewing instrument

62: Dish made using a blender, often

63: Travel smoothly

64: Send sprawling

65: FCC flouter Howard

66: Bacchanalian blast

67: Quakers or Shakers

Down
1: Milquetoast

2: Skunk's funk

3: Unaccompanied

4: Pancake

5: Like an eccentric uncle

6: Roman date

7: Marginally sufficient

8: Simon ___

9: Eyebrow shape

10: Vegetable container

11: Clearasil target

12: Road grooves

13: Harness race pace

18: Flies high

21: Grape centers

25: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese

26: Clear the windshield

27: Ooze out

28: Emulates a Silly Straw

29: Wise guy?

30: Salk's conquest

31: Like LXVI

32: Lyric poem

33: Colorado or Mississippi

34: Visionaries

39: With ___ breath (anxiously)

40: Stages a Civil War battle

42: Place (a bet)

43: San Antonio hoopsters

45: King's employee

48: Like most newspapers

49: Ancient Egyptian emblems

50: 100-0, e.g.

51: Roy Innis's org.

53: ___ facto

54: Cauterize

55: Fuddy-duddy

56: Triangular sail insert

57: Multigenerational story

58: Pt. of USDA

60: Craving





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