Crossword for Wed, 9/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Sandwich fish

5: Reduces in intensity

9: Watch chain

12: Nutmeg covering

13: Edible tubers

15: Burn soother

16: Waiting area?

18: Demolish

19: Mai ___

20: Roman date

21: Commotion

23: Produced offspring

24: Unused portion

25: Frightens

28: Old-line types

32: Valentine's Day symbol

33: Spirited air

34: Caroling song

35: In the thick of

36: Roof edges

37: Festive affair

38: Frodo's burden

39: Keeps cold

40: Irritable

41: Beget

43: Rays in the ocean

44: Colored

45: Actual wording

46: Powerful

49: Pump part

50: 'Friendly' pronoun

53: Mystique

54: Stager

57: Cattle poker

58: Lead to

59: Tell all

60: Pharaohs' symbol of power

61: Lions and Tigers and Bears

62: Soft drink

Down
1: Like lemons

2: Ammonia compound

3: Not finalized, legally

4: Peak stat

5: Practice pieces

6: Uncovered

7: Lingerie buys

8: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

9: Criticism

10: Primordial sludge

11: Sugar source

14: Urban grid

15: Trigonometry function

17: Broadcast

22: Can opener?

23: Part of a combat zone

24: Gets to

25: Frighten

26: Aromatic herb

27: Mock-portraying

28: Aquacade employee

29: Meat case selection

30: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

31: Destroys

33: Like a football

36: Reproducible in great detail

40: IRS concerns

42: 'Sister Act' extra

43: Noisy fights

45: Human trunk

46: Dad

47: Communally owned

48: De ___ (too much)

49: Incite

50: Group of three

51: Rear or deer

52: Meditation method

55: Navigator's need

56: Balaam's mount





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