Crossword for Fri, 8/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Cul-de-___ (dead end roads)

5: They might be visual

9: Silly pair?

13: Spoken

14: Chews

16: Eeyore's friend

17: Like some straits

18: Group of eight

19: King of the road

20: Wanted poster word

22: Encouraged

24: Undemocratic leader

26: Big blow

27: Frenzied female

29: Michelangelo works

33: Barfly

34: Puts the kibosh on

37: Speak formally

38: Grad

40: Kiosk

42: Up to the task

43: Edible tubers

45: No-nonsense

47: Flight from justice

48: Puts up

50: Analyzes grammatically

52: More adorable

55: Goes bad

56: Delocalized

60: Mamas' mates

63: They get into sushi

64: Rhythmic pattern in poetry

66: Lose feathers

67: Ankles, anatomically

68: Your umbrella, perhaps

69: Fleshy fruit

70: Stretch across

71: Puppy's plaint

72: Go postal
Down
1: Soft drink

2: Nutmeg covering

3: Lampoon

4: Blackguard

5: In the past

6: Screen-measuring unit

7: Takes to the prom, e.g.

8: Workout output

9: Transitory things

10: Bird with an eerie call

11: Earring spot

12: Wearing wedgies, say

15: Barbershop band?

21: Lacking, along the Loire

23: Group of three

25: Snitches

27: Canine kin

28: Braille markings

30: Add 15 to this for a cup

31: Bodybuilder Charles

32: Appear

33: Stuff to the gills

35: Butter square

36: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

39: Water __

41: False witness

44: Many a retired thoroughbred

46: Word following eye or nose

49: Edible rhubarb parts

51: Impresses, as on the mind

53: Pogo said 'He is us'

54: Fix loose laces

56: Uses a bookie

57: Sow's opposite

58: Earthenware jar

59: Farmer's hangout, in a children's song

61: ___ mater

62: Blended-family prefix

65: One's good name, briefly




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