Crossword for Sun, 25/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Seasonal songs

6: Words with precedent

10: Tired adages

14: Be in store for

15: Monorail unit

16: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

17: Stuffed delicacy

18: Dummy

19: Upgrade the decor

20: They're good to hold

22: Sis or bro

23: Got larger

24: Archery bow wood

25: Ticked off

27: Deep distress

30: Western lilies

32: Compelled

36: Some gametes

37: Make less dependent

38: Foolish

39: They have retractable roofs

41: Bond order

43: 9-Down output

44: Hippies' homes

45: Harbor helper

46: ___ firma

47: Word with light or episode

48: Yang's opposite

49: Knot in a tree

51: Important

53: Old wives' tales and such

56: Inch fraction

57: Passes, as a law

61: Article that may list survivors

62: Indian housemaid

64: Modern form of communication

65: Package carrier

66: Sprawling narrative

67: Diploma word, sometimes

68: Watermelon beginning

69: Did in, old-style

70: Quite high

Down
1: Zippo

2: Is short and shy

3: Dumbo's 'wings'

4: British salt's sobriquet

5: Golda Meir, e.g.

6: Avg.

7: Shoreline problem

8: Rhino relatives

9: Simple organism

10: Drill instructor, usually

11: State peremptorily

12: Off the mark

13: Sluggish

21: Win them all

26: State of needing a drink

27: Least satisfactory

28: Elliptical

29: Itching (to)

31: Brake neighbor

33: Clergyman's audience

34: Weariness

35: Condescend

40: Set, as a goal

41: ___ de mer (seasickness)

42: Clay brick

44: Plunder

47: Aboriginal

50: Accumulate

52: A to Z

53: Subdivision divisions

54: Chamber music instrument

55: Ceremonial practice

58: Arrived

59: Magazine founded by Henry Luce

60: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

63: 'Hee ___'





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