Crossword for Mon, 3/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Marshes

5: Goads

10: Sign of healing

14: Parade spoiler

15: Coin of Nepal or Pakistan

16: Heavy book

17: Sign that changes the pitch of a note

19: Yokel

20: Greek letters

21: Run-down theatres

23: Japanese dish

26: Occupies the real world

27: Temple student

30: '___ there, done that'

31: Same-old-same-old

32: Blender button

34: 'Rats!'

36: Gave a hand?

40: Roof edges

42: Sound of a fan

43: Short stanza concluding a poem

44: Exhausted

45: Word following eye or nose

47: Indication

48: Touch of winter

50: Yawn-provoking

52: Szechuan sauce source

53: Pillage and plunder

56: Swings around

58: Mixture

60: One at a time

64: Clematis, for one

65: Fancy pastry

68: They're beaten in the kitchen

69: Earth tone

70: Make money

71: Write-off

72: Floors with a punch

73: Deli loaves
Down
1: Sigma Nu, for short

2: Every one individually

3: Pleasant French resort?

4: Peevish states

5: Beset

6: Turn tail

7: Choose

8: Unhearing

9: Merchant

10: Puts into difficulty

11: Overthrow attempts

12: Scope

13: Borscht veggies

18: Paint crudely

22: Ooze out

24: Caught wind of

25: Guts

27: Is short and shy

28: Sound of a hard smack

29: Still in play

33: Broke

35: Halloween spooker

37: Dollar competitor

38: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

39: Elfin

41: Former Police man

46: Advantages

49: Vegetable container

51: Island souvenirs

53: 'Bolero' composer

54: Compadre

55: Sharp aches

57: Betray contempt

59: Pepper spray alternative

61: It's often touched up

62: Old Italian money

63: Deep desires

66: Pot ingredient?

67: Tick off




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