Crossword for Fri, 7/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Blackthorn shrubs

6: Ratchet bar

10: Shiite leader

14: About

15: Sound on the rebound

16: Soft drink

17: It may put you in the arms of Morpheus

19: Filet mignon source

20: Inhuman

21: Diatribes

23: Aardvark's tidbit

24: Come after

25: PDA entry

28: 'I wonder...'

31: Basketball position (abbr.)

32: Type of poetry

34: Kind of down

36: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

39: Cunctation

42: Stitch up

43: Church recesses

44: Analyze in English class

45: Star pitcher

46: Biathlon need

48: Uses a bookie

49: Candid

52: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

54: Bigots

57: Future flower

61: Short newspaper piece

62: F, to the Board of Health

64: Former capital of Italy?

65: Mukluk, e.g.

66: Get out of the way

67: Wimbledon hits

68: Piercing tools

69: Olympic weapons
Down
1: Sign of healing

2: Pat response

3: Hematite and galena

4: Rapturous

5: Slipper material

6: Banana discard

7: It may be passed on the Hill

8: Tiny amount

9: Places

10: 'Cast Away' locale

11: They can swing

12: 'Farewell, François!'

13: Parson's place

18: 'Thirty days ___ September ...'

22: Cover over

25: Crescent-shaped mountain range

26: Fiery stack

27: Forepart of a boat

29: GI's diner

30: Small arachnids

31: Marsh

33: Fails under pressure

35: Tiddlywink, e.g.

36: Slinky, essentially

37: Large group

38: Kind of column

40: Musclebound brute

41: Service area?

45: Inner souls, to Jung

47: Computer signpost

49: Superfluous something

50: Sine, cosine, or tangent

51: Sour

53: In reserve

55: Oktoberfest horn

56: Frosty's composition

57: Snitches

58: Summoned

59: Strongly advise

60: Turns red, perhaps

63: Helios, to the Romans




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