Crossword for Sat, 3/Nov/2007

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Across
1: Smack, as a baseball

5: Equipped with M-16's

10: Blob of used gum

13: Laura, to George W.

14: Savoir-__

15: Elevator car

16: Type of flu

18: Bit to split

19: 'Daphne' division

20: Add-on for Congo

21: Utah's state flower

22: Miami daily

24: Any acetate, chemically

26: They're secretive

29: Likely to fail

32: Dove's domicile

35: Garbage bag closer

36: Conical tooth

37: Tune

38: Hotel helper

40: Spanish title of respect

41: Andean beasts of burden

43: Handyman's vehicle

44: Sanctuary furniture

45: Chatty flappers

46: Put down

48: Indian lute

50: Walked a dog responsibly

54: CEO, CFO, etc.

56: Beaks

59: Inscribed pillar

60: Thy, nowadays

61: Feared spiders

63: Memo

64: Grown grub

65: Curling surface

66: Musclebound brute

67: Operate the rudder

68: Where oysters grow
Down
1: Rustling sound

2: Recoil

3: Following

4: In the 'difficult years'

5: Sternward

6: One way to travel

7: 'I'll catch it!'

8: Removes, as a record

9: Strikes from a proof

10: Shore

11: Bug-eyed

12: Test-driver's car

15: Milk protein

17: Unload, as stock

23: Takes to the prom, e.g.

25: Waiter's tote

27: Diddly-squat

28: Investigate, with 'into'

30: Be aware of

31: Deep desires

32: Storm preceder

33: Like some garage floors

34: Morph

36: Shaped like a dunce cap

38: ___ fiber (flax, hemp, ramie, or jute)

39: Block passage through

42: Servers' boss, when followed by d'

44: Agitate

46: Had a nightmare

47: 'Bunnies' under the bed

49: Motion defeaters

51: Contradict

52: Animal with twisted horns

53: Cubicle fixtures

54: Talking bird

55: Gunk

57: Scottish hillside

58: Wise man

62: Easter preceder?




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