Crossword for Thu, 3/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Cause of a bad air day

5: Stretch across

9: Word before baked or dollar

13: Yards of grass

15: Christmas trio

16: Object of pagan worship

17: Block house?

18: Hard white china

20: Melody above the theme

22: Hairdo helper

23: Mardi Gras luminary

24: Has a bawl?

26: City relative

28: Official seal

31: Perfect examples

35: Egg-shaped

36: Hayloft block

37: Wisher's place

38: It may be dry

39: Big blows

40: Vote to kill

41: It may get plastered

43: Secondhand

44: Photo finish

46: More aloof

48: Quarterback, at times

49: Exigency

50: Avoids

52: Tricked

54: Video recorder, for short

56: Reception aid

60: Spiders, e.g.

63: Geometry calculations

64: Hideaway

65: Curtail

66: Was really, really bad

67: Friend

68: Boulevard liners

69: Hot tubs
Down
1: Didn't come home standing up

2: Conjurer

3: Night birds

4: Potato dumplings

5: Smack down

6: What golfers try to break

7: Bug-eyed

8: They end a century

9: Strike

10: Decorations

11: Unaccompanied

12: Bend, as a joint

14: Flew

19: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

21: Louse egg

25: Deck basecoats

27: Arouse great enthusiasm

28: Monks' hooded garments

29: Like a roc

30: Small rabbit

32: Responded 'Not guilty'

33: Fill with joy

34: More shrewd

36: Pyramid bottom

39: Direction

42: Garden tool

44: Rays in the ocean

45: States confidently

47: Pt. of MIT

48: Groaner

51: Hinged door fasteners

52: Festive affair

53: Spoken

55: Coffee grinder

57: Tide type

58: Grandmother, affectionately

59: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

61: Blubber

62: Lower, as lights




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