NY Times, Thu, Dec 25, 2008

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Across		Down
1. Choker component : CLASP 6. Music pioneered by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires : SKA 9. ___ secretary : MADAM 14. Rummage : RIFLE 15. Suffer : AIL 16. Bygone Olds : ALERO 17. Sorkin who created "The West Wing" : AARON 18. Section in a record store : CLASSICAL 20. Chestnut-colored mustang offspring? : BROWNBRONCOCOLT 22. Its coat of arms includes a vicuña : PERU 23. "Rule, Britannia" composer Thomas : ARNE 24. Nuts : LOCO 27. Like the space around a first-class seat, say : AMPLE 29. Con : SCAM 33. Pitcher Hideo Nomo's birthplace : OSAKA 35. "No ___" ("Beats me") : IDEA 37. Ripen : AGE 38. Main dedicatee of an Austin cathedral? : CHIEFTEXANSAINT 42. "Talk to ___," Pedro Almodóvar film : HER 43. Time-honored name? : LUCE 44. Food processor setting : PUREE 45. Torpedoed : SANK 47. David ___, founder of the Libertarian Party : NOLAN 50. A.A.A. jobs : TOWS 51. ___ were : ASIT 53. Brick maker : LEGO 55. Hefty invoice for boots and spurs? : GIANTCOWBOYBILL 62. On the fence : NOTSOSURE 63. Dashboard item : RADIO 64. Emasculate : UNMAN 65. Embarrassed, perhaps : RED 66. Last name of Kipling's Kim : OHARA 67. Fresh : SASSY 68. ___ Balls (snack cakes) : SNO 69. Masters champ of 1949, 1952 and 1954 : SNEAD		1. Grouch : CRAB 2. Epithet that's an anagram of 60-Down : LIAR 3. Big do : AFRO 4. Snail : SLOWPOKE 5. Pasta salad ingredient : PENNE 6. Pelvic bone : SACRUM 7. Overseas shipping unit : KILO 8. Star of Broadway's "QED," 2001-02 : ALANALDA 9. Brick placer : MASON 10. Walker, Cooper and others : ALICES 11. Art ___ : DECO 12. Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL 13. Shed : MOLT 19. Present for viewing ... or prevent from being viewed : SCREEN 21. Bust holder : BRA 24. Ness and Tay : LOCHS 25. Dublin-born film star Milo : OSHEA 26. ___ terrier : CAIRN 28. Dot : PIXEL 30. The City of a Thousand Minarets : CAIRO 31. Predecessor of Ford : AGNEW 32. Doles (out) : METES 34. Org. founded by Samuel Gompers : AFL 36. Saharan viper : ASP 39. Garb for Robin Hood and his band : TUNICS 40. Trips through rain forests, maybe : ECOTOURS 41. Famously fast route : AUTOBAHN 46. Home of Fort Scott National Historic Site : KANSAS 48. Light ratio in astronomy : ALBEDO 49. Prefix with romantic : NEO 52. Like some silences : STONY 54. Spinners : GYROS 55. Prey for lions : GNUS 56. College in New Rochelle, N.Y. : IONA 57. Mall conveniences : ATMS 58. Cousin of a treecreeper : WREN 59. Family name suffix in taxonomy : IDAE 60. Money that's an anagram of 2-Down : LIRA 61. Dishwasherful : LOAD