Crossword for Wed, 8/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Utah's state flower

5: Plots of ground

9: Conducting rod?

14: Gripe, gripe, gripe

15: Earthenware jar

16: Wide-open

17: Capping

18: Body's companion

19: More dry and withered

20: Takes back

23: 'Not only that ...'

24: Impudent

25: Type of squash

27: They get into sushi

30: Paintball player

33: Geographical seven

36: Loutish fellow

38: Evil spirits

39: Pindar product

40: Guts

42: Cut off

43: Audacious

45: Remote room?

46: Lacking, along the Loire

47: Burn slowly

49: A runner may break it

51: Wintry mess

52: Right-hand page

56: Troublemaker

58: Possible relative

62: Gave a hand?

64: Fly alone

65: Parsley or sage

66: Punch spiker

67: Ammonia compound

68: Life of Riley

69: Pensive piece of poetry

70: Amaze

71: Stepped on it
Down
1: Neck wrap

2: Cafeteria customer

3: Search blindly

4: Goes up against

5: Rolling stone's lack, proverbially

6: Burn soother

7: Favorable factor

8: Some condiments

9: Double-reed instruments

10: Historical period

11: Hairy creepy crawler

12: Sesame starter?

13: Geek's cousin

21: '___ Loves You'

22: Spiny anteater

26: Gigantic 'Arabian Nights' flyer

28: 'The __ Time' (Billy Joel hit)

29: Japanese honorific

31: Black, to a bard

32: Tears roughly

33: Repairs the outfield

34: Cheese with a red coat

35: High-tech industry

37: Streaking, once

40: Automotive, music or tourism, e.g.

41: Out of work? (abbr.)

44: Hardly hale

46: Boils

48: Lab monkey

50: Old hand

53: Inexpensive

54: By no means long-winded

55: Formed into a circle

56: Emulate a couch potato

57: Ground corn

59: Dessert wine

60: ___ cheese

61: Horse color

63: Part of a journey




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