Crossword for Wed, 30/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Pitch indicator

5: Almanac tidbits

10: White lies

14: Hawaiian dance

15: Popular fragrance

16: Brainwave

17: Short newspaper piece

18: Appetite stimulant

19: Sow's opposite

20: Dental anchor

22: Teapot dwellers?

24: Redacts

26: 'Treasure Island' pirate

27: Have stuff

29: Gravy server

31: Feeds the hogs

34: Wharf pest

35: Water balloon impact sound

37: Synagogue scroll

39: Pitt of 'Ocean's Twelve'

41: Pelvic bones

43: Shower affection (on)

44: Rural landing place

46: House portals

48: Chap.'s partner

49: Online VIP

51: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

52: Passports, e.g (abbr.)

53: Polynesian paste

54: Jabbed in the ribs, e.g.

56: Court figure

61: Adjusts, as a trip counter

64: Spooks' sounds

65: Be taken with

67: Half hitch, e.g.

68: Run gracefully

69: Fortuneteller's deck

70: Non-clashing color

71: Barely manages, with 'out'

72: Simple organism

73: Tear apart
Down
1: Stylish

2: Long-necked instrument

3: Holmes mantra, and a hint to this puzzle's theme

4: Well-known

5: Some manly haircuts

6: Tune

7: Coagulate

8: Unresisting

9: Scoundrels

10: It may come in cords

11: Roman date

12: Lick

13: Dupes

21: Points

23: Hit with hailstones

25: Healthy lunch choice

27: Eyes

28: Blemishes

30: Mexican cuisine

32: Capital founded by Roger Williams

33: Gorged

36: Assemblage of people

38: Not his

40: Throws away, with 'of'

42: Where trees may be cultivated

45: Like Richard and Yorick?

47: Rice drink

50: Object of a birthday bash?

55: Gravelly glacial ridge

56: Up to the task

57: Ripped off

58: Drink to excess

59: Cheese with a red coat

60: Time past

62: Ripped apart

63: Many a retired thoroughbred

66: Hold up




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