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1. "I needed it by yesterday!" : ASAP 5. Slightly : ATAD 9. Cat sounds : PURRS 14. Daffy : LOCO 15. Exploding star : NOVA 16. TV opera "___ and the Night Visitors" : AMAHL 17. Completely nude : BUCKNAKED 19. Pago Pago's home : SAMOA 20. Clarinetist Shaw : ARTIE 21. Pass, as legislation : ENACT 23. Larry King's channel : CNN 24. J. R. of "Dallas" : EWING 26. It makes good scents : SACHET 28. Fearsome snakes : COBRAS 31. Prophet of I and II Kings : ELISHA 33. "The Simpsons" shopkeeper : APU 34. Be harshly bright : GLARE 36. Persia, today : IRAN 39. "Les Misérables" fugitive : VALJEAN 41. Feeling all excited : ATINGLE 44. Fashion magazine founded in France : ELLE 45. Big name in office equipment : EPSON 47. Cauliflower ___ : EAR 48. Treating unkindly : MEANTO 51. Name that one logs on with : USERID 53. Alternative to a paper clip : STAPLE 55. Cities with wharves : PORTS 57. Rocky peak : TOR 58. Dog strap : LEASH 60. Sell via the Internet : ETAIL 64. Catawampus : ASKEW 66. All-male gathering : STAGPARTY 68. Birds flying in a V formation : GEESE 69. Scarlett O'Hara's plantation : TARA 70. Poe story, e.g. : TALE 71. Bother persistently : EATAT 72. Greek war god : ARES 73. 90 degree pipe joints : ELLS		1. "Dark Angel" star Jessica : ALBA 2. Making the mouth pucker, say : SOUR 3. The "A" of I.R.A.: Abbr. : ACCT 4. More dawdling : POKIER 5. Literary olio : ANA 6. Turnstile coin : TOKEN 7. Eye-for-an-eye seeker : AVENGER 8. Anti-art movement : DADA 9. Angel hair and penne : PASTAS 10. Thurman of "Kill Bill" : UMA 11. Bygone Dodge S.U.V. : RAMCHARGER 12. Alps-to-Arles river : RHONE 13. Bias : SLANT 18. Like music in a candle shop, maybe : NEWAGE 22. CBS forensic series : CSI 25. Cuba, por ejemplo : ISLA 27. Goatee's place : CHIN 28. Bats' place : CAVE 29. Down Under gemstone : OPAL 30. "Buy buy buy" time on Wall Street : BULLMARKET 32. Meadows : LEAS 35. Working without ___ : ANET 37. Jai ___ : ALAI 38. Guy with his nose always stuck in a book : NERD 40. Humvee forerunner : JEEP 42. Military stint : TOUR 43. Marching synchronously : INSTEP 46. Elton John or Britney Spears : POPSTAR 49. Completely wrong : ALLWET 50. Maiden name preceder : NEE 52. Lord and lady's home : ESTATE 53. Thespian's platform : STAGE 54. Where sailors go : TOSEA 56. Chicago air hub : OHARE 59. "The Thin Man" pooch : ASTA 61. Kazakhstan's ___ Sea : ARAL 62. "___ do" ("That's fine") : ITLL 63. Caustic solutions : LYES 65. That, in Chihuahua : ESA 67. Regular, plus or super : GAS