Crossword for Fri, 30/May/2008

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Across
1: Wacky

5: Stuns

11: Electrical unit

14: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

15: Gambler's tactic

16: Metro maker

17: Letters on a keyboard key

18: Metallic tests

19: Word before sheet or session

20: Narrow margin

22: Is important

24: Apiary occupant

25: Price fixer

26: Eats

30: Single-celled microorganism

34: Star pitcher

35: Cheesy snacks

38: Magazine founded by Henry Luce

39: Part of ROM

41: Barber's work

42: 'I'm better than you' sort

43: Attempt at filming a scene

44: Four-baggers

46: Slice

47: Come after

49: Builders

51: Three, so it's said

54: Get ready for a fight

55: Challenge the credibility of

58: Nerve impulse transmission site

62: ___ de mer (seasickness)

63: Boom box

65: Wheedle

66: Old hand

67: Twice as spooky

68: Package carrier

69: Pig's digs

70: Treeless plain

71: What some writers work on
Down
1: Carp cousin

2: Pretentious

3: Cleared spots, in the forest

4: More statuesque

5: Hot tubs

6: Chopped chow

7: Surgery sites, briefly

8: Shellfish

9: Colorado River rental

10: Way to do it

11: Shrek, e.g.

12: 'I can't ___ you!'

13: Swabs

21: Many millennia

23: Competes in a sulky race

25: Embarrassed

26: Nice menu

27: Dolphins' home

28: Recipe guesstimate

29: Sound on the rebound

31: Silly goose

32: Love affair

33: Items in red

36: Kaput

37: Withered

40: Little diamond

45: Read quickly

48: Removes, as a record

50: Land buys

52: Group of eight

53: '... ___ angels fear to tread'

55: Mischief-makers

56: Gas station store

57: Piece of strategy

58: Leak slowly

59: Time past

60: Stuff to the gills

61: Firm head

64: Lambaste




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