Crossword for Thu, 3/May/2007

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Across
1: Film crew member

5: Soft cheese

9: Kohoutek, e.g.

14: Time past

15: Trout tempter

16: La Scala offering

17: Cut back

18: One-sided

20: Fragments

22: Red shade

23: Player's peg

24: Jalopies

25: Not directly useful

30: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

31: Auction offering

32: Rock garden creeper

34: Plant problem

38: Person of vision

40: Synagogue scroll

42: Go postal

43: More anomalous

45: Personal preferences

47: Helpful hint

48: Goalie's protection

50: Contents of some cans

52: Certain noble's domain

55: Winter ailment

56: Surface

57: Not merely memorable

62: Chubby tot

64: Suspicious

65: Basketry twig

66: ___ cheese

67: Qualities of the conceited

68: Equals

69: Rich soil

70: Monthly payment, for many
Down
1: Swindles

2: Horse color

3: Rubbed the wrong way

4: Made a bird noise

5: Down in the dumps

6: Falls, as into a chair

7: Colored eye part

8: Slim swimmer

9: Clique

10: Objects of computer instructions

11: Have coming

12: Remove graphite or graffiti

13: Stories

19: Dept. store shopper's privilege

21: They're 16th of 26

25: Besides

26: Like most colleges

27: Came across

28: Object of pagan worship

29: Senate of old Rome

33: Construct

35: VIP's following

36: Letters

37: PC software

39: Cub, e.g.

41: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

44: Park protectors

46: Warm and cuddly

49: Batik worker

51: Not so fast

52: Jazz genre

53: Tickle pink

54: Fix loose laces

57: Angelic aura

58: Some intestinal divisions

59: Visit a run-down neighborhood

60: Hulks pump it

61: Dermatologist's concern

63: Unit of oil production, briefly




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