NY Times, Thu, May 24, 2007

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1. Food that's stuck on a plate : KEBAB 6. Cycle starter : UNI 9. Avant-garde composer Brown : EARLE 14. Where Francis Scott Key saw bombs bursting : INAIR 15. Site of an annual auto hill climb : PIKESPEAK 17. "Creature From the Black Lagoon," e.g. : DDDMONSTERMOVIE 19. One trying to stay up while going down : SKIER 20. Shatner's sci-fi drug : TEK 21. Almost bound : APT 24. Overture follower : ACTONE 26. Goes out to sea : EBBS 30. Attention-getting haircut : MOHAWK 32. Suffix with hex- : OSE 34. Sundial hour : III 35. Part of a treaty exchange, for short : POWS 36. Affaires d'___ : ETAT 39. Canon rival : NIKON 41. Gathering of budding agriculturists : HHHHCLUBMEETING 44. Cousins of Drama Desk Awards : OBIES 45. Brim : TEEM 46. Dye plant : ANIL 47. Runner of an experiment? : RAT 48. Suffix with vapour : ISE 50. "Please refrain from personal attacks" : BENICE 52. "Excuse me" : AHEM 54. Controversial 1767 act of Parliament : TEATAX 57. Old J.F.K. sight : SST 58. Gray side: Abbr. : CSA 60. Separates : SORTS 62. Some running competitions : KKKKKKKKKKRACES 69. City of Indiana or Louisiana : LAFAYETTE 70. Severe : ACUTE 71. Big parade organizer : MACYS 72. Sequel title starter, sometimes : SON 73. Target sport : SKEET		1. Western moniker : KID 2. See 3-Down : END 3. With 2-Down, what a villain may come to : BAD 4. Points : AIMS 5. "The Greatest Generation" author : BROKAW 6. Not happy at all : UPSET 7. The N in blasting : NITRO 8. Mike's partner in candy : IKE 9. Salinger girl : ESME 10. Give ___ (prod) : APOKE 11. Rel. title : REV 12. Chou En-___ : LAI 13. Pull (out), as a narrow victory : EKE 16. Some art prints : ERTES 18. Jefferson site : NICKEL 21. Old wine vessel : AMPHORA 22. Bigwig : POOHBAH 23. "The Sword in the Stone" author : THWHITE 25. Cry of innocence : NOTME 27. Two-piece suits? : BIKINIS 28. Study involving nature and engineering : BIONICS 29. Wrestler's wear : SINGLET 31. Queens's ___ Stadium : ASHE 33. Suffix with benz- : ENE 37. One in a class by himself : TUTEE 38. Shinzo ___, Japanese P.M. : ABE 40. Call ___ evening : ITAN 42. Top-rated show of 2002-05 : CSI 43. Start, with "on" : EMBARK 49. Purse : STAKE 51. People in a crowd, maybe : EXTRAS 53. Longtime "ABC's Wide World of Sports" host : MCKAY 55. Request one's presence at : ASKTO 56. Symbol : TOKEN 59. "The ___ the limit" : SKYS 61. Bed, slangily : SACK 62. Airline with a crown in its logo : KLM 63. "The Jungle Book" python : KAA 64. Restaurant with wings : KFC 65. Some chess pieces: Abbr. : KTS 66. Table stick : CUE 67. Season overseas : ETE 68. Established : SET