Crossword for Wed, 3/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Sign of healing

5: Like restaurant towelettes

10: Hansom vehicle

13: Pat response

14: Geological span

15: Root beer alternative

16: Current generator

18: Table scraps

19: My girl cousin, to my mom

20: Not on schedule

21: Lions and Tigers and Bears

22: Cut to the bone

24: Spine-tingling

26: Time keeper?

29: Not yet ignited

32: Important work

35: Utmost

36: Opposite of staccato

37: 'Sister Act' extra

38: Minor deity

40: Player's peg

41: Loosens

43: White Stripes, for one

44: Gropes for words

45: Surveil, with 'out'

46: Soothing

48: Syrup source

50: Cherub's superior

54: Fix a hot dog?

56: Screen-measuring unit

59: Leaf in a book

60: Titanic

61: Concert program listing

63: Mocked by imitating

64: Merchandising scheme, briefly

65: Whiskey measure

66: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

67: Maudlin

68: Bathroom rugs
Down
1: Much teen talk

2: Eyelashes

3: Chips in a chip

4: Nut trees

5: American voters before 1920

6: October birthstone

7: Greek letter

8: Sea duck

9: '... and baby makes ___'

10: Mutually comparable

11: Flute or saxophone variety

12: Striped fish

15: ___ saw (carpenter's curve cutter)

17: Woodwind requirement

23: Ten to a buck

25: Regretted

27: Highlander's cap

28: Rust, tarnish, or laughing gas

30: Short newspaper piece

31: Corn-growing regions

32: Responsibility

33: Quarterback option

34: Pristine

36: Pilfers

38: Like one end of a pool

39: Firearm

42: Endorsed

44: Valor

46: Equus and others

47: Where Barry Bonds plays, briefly

49: Has trouble saying sassafras

51: Maui greeting

52: Wine grape

53: Party throwers

54: Pillow cover

55: Cocoon's contents

57: Hoof-on-pavement sound

58: Rope fiber

62: Coquettish




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