Crossword: ''Solve for X''

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By MATT JONES  |  October 20, 2010
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Across
1 Music game with a floor pad, for short
4 Apples that are colorful
9 Vast tales
14 Come up short
15 Warm-weather style of pants
16 Treat in a grease-stained bag
17 Crate for actor Radcliffe (if X=1)?
19 Part of UHF
20 Golden Globes genre
21 Charged particle
23 "Over here!"
24 Marks certain bovine parents (if X=4)?
29 Warm, so to speak
30 Like a fairy tale piper
31 "Simpsons" word added to the OED
34 ___ Hari
37 Architect Gehry
40 Old record label's boat to reach isolated areas (if X=10)?
44 Poet Federico Garcia ___
45 Software test version
46 Penn of "Harold & Kumar"
47 GOP opponents
49 Rademacher of "General Hospital"
52 Lugs two giant neighboring letters without any help (if X=8)?
58 "Now I see!"
59 Turkey neighbor: abbr.
60 "Well, I must ___ now..."
62 Unsophisticated
65 Spatula hung from the Jaguars' scoreboard (if X=9)?
68 Course clubs
69 Large collars
70 Baggage-scanning gp.
71 Army nickname
72 Canine, for one
73 Pig's digs
Down
1 Connecticut senator Christopher
2 Sneezy, e.g.
3 Kidney-related
4 Time period that shaped the Great Lakes
5 ___ de mer
6 Police radio report, for short
7 Saint ___, U.S. Virgin Islands
8 "___ one, half a dozen..."
9 www.harvard.___
10 Election contender, for short
11 Completely uninformed
12 Ham preparer, perhaps
13 Remains
18 Model married to David Bowie
22 Get some rest
25 ___ Club
26 Dental hygiene brand
27 Minor quarrel
28 Where "You Are"
31 Dial-up alternative
32 Prefix before scope
33 Addition to some prison sentences
35 ___ kwon do
36 They're not pro
38 Gun rights org.
39 Arizona senator Jon
41 ___ Energy Center (home stadium of the NHL's Minnesota Wild)
42 Purina competitor
43 "Little Miss Sunshine" actor Paul
48 Message frantically tapped out
50 Signature for #43
51 Feature of Mary, but not marry?
52 City where Yo-Yo Ma was born
53 "Star Trek" crew member
54 Joe Namath was one
55 Muse of lyric poetry
56 Habitual ways
57 Clear Channel-sponsored annual rock event
61 Battle
63 Lang. of T.S. Eliot
64 Compass dir.
66 Tic-tac-toe line
67 It goes boom

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