Crossword for Sat, 6/Dec/2008

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Across
1: Gloom

5: Kind of beetle

9: Improvises like Ella

14: Type of arch

15: Ballyhoo

16: Salk's conquest

17: Shore bird

19: Surpass in performance

20: 9 - 5, e.g.

21: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

22: Nautical almanac listing

24: Dance with a dip?

26: Aardvark's tidbit

27: Add

30: Viennese table array

35: Treat alternative

36: Traffic lane marker

37: Word with beer or cellar

38: Hippodrome section

39: Stacks for the winter

40: 'Natch!'

41: Piece of property

42: Tributes in verse

43: Michelangelo masterpiece

44: An antique dealer, sometimes

46: Doused with water

47: Star pitcher

48: Say something

50: Least prevalent

54: Campaigned for office

55: Printer spec.

58: Eyelashes

59: Comparisons

62: Emasculate

63: Monthly payment, for many

64: Football's contour

65: Beef and pork

66: Slow as molasses

67: Diminish
Down
1: Fancy-schmancy

2: Emulsifying agent

3: It may zoom in or out

4: Ran in front

5: Arrow stopper, perhaps

6: Varieties

7: Musclebound brute

8: Sanitizer's target

9: Some silverware

10: Woodworking technique

11: Hgts.

12: Lunar effect

13: Chimney sweep's target

18: Board

23: Desert refuges

24: Offspring of Bold Ruler and Somethingroyal

25: Ones bearing Valentine's gifts, e.g.

27: Rose oil

28: Number on a tag

29: Docks

31: Budgets make them meet

32: Scoundrels

33: Flourless cake

34: Lieu

36: Morse's creation

39: Prepares an apple, perhaps

43: It could be a grand

45: Continent separators

46: Lots and plots

49: Short-sheeting a bed, e.g.

50: Riffraff

51: State tree of Maine

52: ___ mater

53: Waterproof cover

55: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

56: Fen fuel

57: Sea spot

60: Opposite of paleo-

61: Sailor, in slang




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