Crossword for Tue, 5/May/2009

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Across
1: Basic beds

5: Talked fondly

10: Abrupt bit of thunder

14: Potpourri

15: Uppercase

16: King of the road

17: '70s trouser style

19: Mocked by imitating

20: Blades of choppers

21: Shelley's 'Ozymandius' and Milton's 'On His Blindness'

23: Balaam's mount

24: Point, as a rifle

26: Louse egg

27: Opera hero, usually

29: Liquored up

33: Perth pal

36: Pony pace

38: Like blue shoes in an Elvis song

39: Chemical group derived from benzene

40: Warehouse

42: Wise man

43: Press on

45: Amaze

46: Scratched (out)

47: Like Mr Magoo

49: Western lilies

51: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

52: Abacus part

53: Curtain call response

56: Went against

60: Highly ornamented style

62: Horse color

63: Ernest or Julio Gallo

66: The death of the party?

67: Bring forth

68: Preconception

69: Let fall

70: Freeway divisions

71: On cloud nine
Down
1: Charmed animal?

2: Some dairy sticks

3: Jousting bouts

4: Fly alone

5: Some business info

6: Feed seed

7: Food scrap

8: Qualities of the conceited

9: Exorcism targets

10: Cabaret songbirds

11: Run gracefully

12: Assist larcenously

13: Veggie vessels

18: Scottish hillside

22: What picky people pick

25: Encirclers of castles

27: RANG UP

28: Mob actions

30: Too diluted

31: Upper hand

32: Property title

33: Injure severely

34: Word before ant or brat

35: Copy editor's bane

37: More correct

41: Eats to excess

44: Tells a whopper

48: Tough-sounding yarn?

50: Skunk's funk

53: David of 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'

54: Dolphins' home

55: Least satisfactory

56: Eyes

57: Eeyore's friend

58: Cut back

59: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

61: Corn cores

64: Dauphin's denial

65: Squeeze (out)




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