Crossword for Thu, 8/May/2008

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Across
1: Carp cousin

5: Curly coif

9: __ kebab

14: Neural fiber

15: Diamond defect

16: Record output

17: Provisional

19: Angle symbol

20: Price fixer

21: One of the Roosevelts

23: Birth certificate notation

24: Free

26: Eyeball

28: Latin lover, perhaps?

34: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

38: 'To each ___ own'

39: Prove

40: Song for two

41: Off the mark

43: White Stripes, for one

44: Stuffed delicacy

45: Upgrade the decor

46: Oxygen-dependent microorganism

48: Szechuan sauce source

49: Batik worker

50: Influence beforehand

52: Tournament exemption

54: Scrooge's exclamation

55: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

58: Choose a textbook series

62: Bloodsucker

66: From the nearest star

68: Anguish

70: Stonehenge worshiper, maybe

71: In-box item

72: Hang decorations on

73: Geeks

74: What some writers work on

75: Crude living quarters
Down
1: Statistics

2: Gives the heave-ho

3: Go to sleep, with 'out'

4: Registers formally

5: Sternward

6: Act the butterfly

7: Rip-roaring review

8: Was in the red

9: Woodland deity

10: 'Come again?'

11: Roman date

12: Something to build on

13: Piltdown Man, for one

18: Crops up

22: Shower affection (on)

25: N.L. Central, e.g.

27: Summoned

28: Garden green

29: British salt's sobriquet

30: In reserve

31: Mulled beverage

32: Become accustomed

33: Newshawk's triumph

35: Florence Nightingale, e.g.

36: Items in a deejay's mail

37: Collar inserts

42: Gather on a surface

44: Make potable

46: Mocked by imitating

47: Bounce up and down

51: Knife holder

53: Gridiron units

55: High spd. phone line

56: Bad driver's shout

57: Pronounce indistinctly

59: Resistance units

60: Tiniest protest

61: Unresisting

63: Non-clashing color

64: Informal voucher

65: Gropes for words

67: It may be financial

69: Gigantic 'Arabian Nights' flyer




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