Crossword for Fri, 7/Jul/2006

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Across
1: Do away with

6: Hit hard

10: Point out

14: Combat site

15: Reason and Enlightenment

16: Became threadbare

17: Boxes with bows, usually

18: Really soaked

20: Fanatical

22: Carp constantly

23: Island souvenirs

24: Inventor's protections

28: Accompany

31: Arrived

32: 'Caught you!'

33: Compares prices

34: Cube or sphere, e.g.

35: Label

36: Mr. Peanut accessory

37: Garbage bag closer

38: Ditty

39: Liable

40: Official stickers

42: Facial astringent targets

43: A pop

44: Beldames

45: Most painful to the touch

46: They're opposite points

48: Failure

49: Brooding type?

50: They know the drill

54: Like some agreements

58: Series beginning

59: Even-steven

60: Acct. summary

61: Viscous

62: Barristers' wear

63: Golf ball pegs

64: Merits, as compensation
Down
1: Starch from palms

2: Den of thieves

3: Whistle-blowers, of a sort

4: Oryx, e.g.

5: Quarterbacks, at times

6: Points on a diamond?

7: Quaint oath

8: '___ me think about it'

9: Enormous sea wave

10: Metal-shaping tool

11: Sensational

12: Unwrought iron

13: Tie the knot

19: Was worthy

21: Pose for a pic

24: Fence pickets

25: Disposition

26: Macbeth et al.

27: Most like Solomon

28: Breakout

29: Lathe, e.g.

30: Word in a 1980s scandal

31: Spring features

34: Does' mates

38: Mexican bread

40: Part of a bedroom set

41: Sincerely zealous

42: It's stuck in a corner

45: Daylight

47: Certain food fishes

48: Slugs

50: Title for Edith Evans

51: Incite

52: '___ Came You' (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)

53: Simon ___

54: Incidentally, in Netspeak

55: Sundial figure

56: Part of a journey

57: Map abbr.




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