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Crossword: ''Remember the date''

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By MATT JONES | September 23, 2009

Across
1 "This is only a test" grp.
4 Mission that figured into "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"
9 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" author's monogram
12 Captain Hook's helper
13 More urgent
14 Radiohead lead singer Yorke
16 Israeli statesman Abba
17 1996 Madonna musical
18 ___ Six (Louisiana group who was the focus of 2007 rallies)
19 Commedia dell'___
20 Word after Pink or black
21 Punch-to-the-solar-plexus noises
22 Limestone, mostly
24 Panama, for one
26 Arctic, for one
27 Pacer maker
29 ___ a customer
30 Director Anderson
31 Electromagnetic physicist Michael
34 Former San Francisco Giant Robb
35 There's no helping it
37 At no cost
40 "If Democrats Had Any Brains, ___ Be Republicans" (Ann Coulter book)
41 Ingredient in many soaps
45 ___ Me (Requiem Mass movement)
47 "You got that right"
49 Conjure up
50 Sudoku component
53 Sean of "The Goonies"
54 "You Will Be My ___ True Love" (song from "Cold Mountain")
55 In a smooth way
58 "___ recherche du temps perdu" (Proust work)
59 Event with an opening on 8/8/08, since 8 is a lucky number
62 Joan's TV home
63 Give a snotty look to
64 Rubber seals
65 Poultry farm

Down
1 Hug
2 With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs)
3 Dramatist who was adviser to Nero
4 Not so klutzy
5 Multi-continent charity concert held on 7/7/07
6 "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess," e.g.
7 International standardized measurement promotion that may get more attention next year, since it's held on 10/10/10
8 Unwritten tests
9 He baptized Jesus
10 Horror movie remake officially released on 6/6/06 (at 6:06:06 a.m.)
11 Prove wrong
12 Manatee, e.g.
15 Vintner Paul who would "sell no wine before its time"
23 Poop
25 Movie with Robin Williams and LL Cool J
28 The old ball and chain?
32 "The Thin Man" dog
33 Carmaker headquartered in Bavaria
35 Onion relative
36 Bended pipes
37 Crappy motel
38 Where Tanguy may have got tan?
39 To linguists, it's African American Vernacular English
42 Rogers' dance partner
43 It hooks up to an engine
44 Heather Locklear soap
46 Live (in)
48 They understand in simple terms
50 Structures on sitars
51 Prefix meaning "egg"
52 Like the band Manic Street Preachers
56 Centimeter or candela, e.g.
57 "Flashdance" director Adrian
60 ___ and Daxter (video game series)
61 Cause of a pocket stain, perhaps