Crossword for Thu, 31/May/2007

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Across
1: Piercing tools

5: Works the land

10: Get better

14: ___ accompli

15: Religious belief that involves sorcery

16: BB's and bullets

17: Pretentious

18: Ring-tailed animal

19: Parade spoiler

20: Tape spool

21: It may give you a rush

23: Biathlete's burden

25: Flush or blush

26: Put down

28: Turn in

32: Ran

34: Even-steven

35: Beat walker

38: Silly pair?

39: Drops

41: Bona ___

42: One rotation of the earth

43: Swordfight

44: Orbital point

46: Sudden increases

48: Indelicate

49: Equipped with M-16's

52: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel

54: Management skill

58: Debutante, typically

61: Commercial endorsement

62: Flying solo

63: ___ mater

64: Give birth to

65: Dish made using a blender, often

66: Counterfeit coin

67: Motion-carrying votes

68: Pitched things

69: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'
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1: Way off

2: Hard or soft addition

3: Strictly speaking

4: Salon workers

5: Word with point or plane

6: Homes

7: Type of admiral

8: Perth pal

9: Ankle-knee connector

10: Loose woman

11: Modern form of communication

12: Part of PABA

13: Company dodger

22: LSD, informally

24: Finder's charge

26: All tucked in

27: Gaucho's cattle catcher

29: Handy

30: Byte fraction

31: City near Scottsdale

33: Silently sullen

35: Thin smoke wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco

36: Tributes in verse

37: They're 16th of 26

40: Actress Ryan

41: It's nearest the bow

43: Fellow, slangily

45: Per hundred (Abbr.)

46: Marsh plants

47: Small piano

49: Series beginning

50: Race with batons

51: Purple shade

53: Olympic weapons

55: Spellbound

56: Turn on an axis

57: Highway hooter

59: Porn

60: Starch from palms




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