Crossword: ''Pardon my French''

There's some colorful language in here
By MATT JONES  |  May 6, 2009

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Across
1 ___ doble ("Dancing With the Stars" dance)
5 Hebrew name for God
11 Fuel for some ranges
14 Wild goat
15 Puts new prices on, maybe
16 Diamond arbiter
17 Bugs Bunny, most notably?
19 "Paper Planes" singer
20 Test versions
21 The Tower Bridge spans it
23 Magician's stock-in-trade
26 Belief in ancient Phoenicia
27 Sniffles may be part of it
29 Frozen soy dessert brand
31 Tankard filler
32 Fear that you'll smear your makeup?
36 Robert Browning's "___ Passes"
39 JFK neighbor
40 Pod veggies
41 The woman that seduces hard-boiled film detectives?
44 "La-la" lead-in
45 Basketball stat
46 Coffeehouse choice
47 Adult life, for some
50 Less healthy
52 Illinois birth city of Cindy Crawford
53 "All kidding ___..."
56 A.F.L.'s partner
57 Extreme skateboarder who shreds on the halfpipe?
62 Emergency shelter bed
63 F equivalent
64 Columbus ship
65 Little leopard
66 Joint
67 Makes a scene?
Down
1 Mr. in the vending machine, once
2 Qualified
3 Washington newspaper that ended its printed version in March 2009, for short
4 Ventura County's most populous city
5 Airport abbr.
6 Trafficking org.
7 One way to wager on horses: abbr.
8 Catch in the act
9 Shake up
10 "For real?"
11 ___ Worms
12 French female friends
13 Hiccup, for instance
18 TV show with extreme close-ups
22 "That doesn't make ___ of sense..."
24 Midpoint: abbr.
25 Drink that's stirred, but not shaken
26 Sports car manufacturer now owned by Volkswagen
27 Crunch's title
28 Mixed bag
30 Poisonous blowfishes
33 In need of joint relief
34 ___ Riot (indie band with the 2008 album "The Rhumb Line")
35 Morales of "La Bamba"
37 Czech Republic capital, to locals
38 Pardoned, as sins
42 1962 Paul Anka hit subtitled "That Kiss!"
43 Designer monogram
46 Business jet maker
47 CCXXV x VIII, for all you Roman numeral lovers
48 Alphabetical fivesome
49 Donnie Wahlberg's group, to fans
51 "Ni Hao, Kai-___" (Nickelodeon cartoon)
54 Job for a body shop
55 Historic periods
58 Pi follower
59 Typewriter key
60 Hosp. procedure
61 Unlock, in verse

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