Crossword for Wed, 30/Aug/2006

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Across
1: Wise man

5: Inscribed pillar

10: Reduces in intensity

14: Favorable factor

15: Show hosted by Katie Couric

16: Diving bird

17: Feels poorly

18: Japanese cartooning style

19: Be idle

20: Observes

22: Capping

23: Tangle up

24: Flower sites

26: Blubber

27: 'Flee, fly!'

29: Arouse great enthusiasm

32: Captures via VCR

35: Mowed strip

36: Historical period

37: Microbrewery offerings

38: Cuts back on calories

39: Like the fabled piper

40: Troublemaker

41: Free-for-all

42: 1998 has two

43: Full circle, on the track

44: Parcel of land

45: What golfers try to break

46: Upper hand

48: Rummy relative

52: Gumbo vegetable

54: Leeways

57: Word with beer or cellar

58: Teen faves

59: Goose sound

60: Musical pitch

61: Kind of gas

62: Church recess

63: Goes downhill fast?

64: Total before deductions

65: Watermelon beginning
Down
1: Spot to park

2: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

3: Dupes

4: Perfumes

5: Like a clear night

6: Like Schubert's music, e.g.

7: Browser function

8: Like some excuses

9: Peacock features

10: Razzle-dazzle

11: Warship warrant officer

12: Clown of renown

13: Blended-family prefix

21: Cell features

25: Chimpanzee's hoot

27: Short partner?

28: Really dislike

30: Type of arch

31: Ties the knot

32: Follow

33: ___ mater

34: Pizza topping

35: Farm tower

38: Redlining

39: Fierce fish

41: EPA computation

42: Grandmother, affectionately

45: Analyzes grammatically

47: Takes to the prom, e.g.

48: Biology units

49: Rifle attachment

50: On pins and needles

51: Responded, on 'Jeopardy!'

52: Table scraps

53: Wacky one

55: Skunk's funk

56: Gray wolf




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