Crossword for Wed, 4/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Sleepy coworker

4: Pesto herb

9: Put down

14: Piano man Charles

15: Expenditure

16: Rumormonger

17: List abbr.

18: Fashionable doggy?

20: Farmer's hangout, in a children's song

22: Compadre

23: ___ for tat

24: Joylessness

26: Penn's partner

28: Grow more intense

31: Burp

34: Antitoxins

35: Basketball position (abbr.)

37: Take to court

38: Refrain

41: Decrease, as a load

43: Szechuan sauce source

44: Brown paper container

45: Olympic weapon

46: Ballroom dance of Brazil

48: Unrivaled

52: Chinese shrine

55: Jack of nursery rhyme

56: Debate side

57: 'You've got some ___!'

60: Akebono's sport

61: They're hot

64: Spanky, to Alfalfa

65: 'Farewell, François!'

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

67: Cycle starter

68: Hanker (for)

69: Chichi

70: In mourning
Down
1: Earth remover

2: Horse operas

3: Like sine waves

4: Repetitive computer program

5: Mystique

6: Tobacco pipe part

7: Set on fire

8: Elks' meeting place?

9: Bluto's assent

10: Greater in excellence

11: Like some car wax

12: Leave in, to an editor

13: Van Gogh's love offering

19: Helios, to the Romans

21: Merest

25: Not the best place to crash

27: Bookkeeping books

29: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

30: Chinese dynasty

32: Stick on a table

33: Half a score

35: Head for the hills

36: Film-editing effect

38: Balaam's mount

39: Constricting snake

40: Formal meetings

42: Lends a hand

47: Idle chitchat

48: Living room

49: Doesn't contain one's anger

50: City on the Volga

51: Unemotional

53: Undivided

54: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

56: Give up

58: Dryer outlet

59: Segments of history

61: Cargo compartment

62: Daylight

63: Devious




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