Crossword: ''Bank job''

You're getting colder
By MATT JONES  |  December 2, 2009

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Across
1 Leon Uris novel "___ 18"
5 Enter
9 Uses as a source
14 Shape of some mirrors
15 It now includes Lat. and Lith.
16 Muhammad Ali's daughter
17 Macho way to say "dandruff"?
19 How bad grades are sometimes written
20 Jackson or Johnson
21 Category for everything else: abbr.
23 Night before
24 They may get stroked
26 Drying-out stage
28 Watch chain
31 "Hedwig and the Angry ___"
33 Wine refused in "Sideways"
36 "He's a complicated man/but no one understands him/but his woman"
38 Shankar on the sitar
40 "Slithy" "Jabberwocky" creature
41 Like Shaquille O'Neal
42 Rocky and Bullwinkle's nemesis
43 Graceful swimmer
44 Airport near Paris
45 2007 NBA Draft #1 pick Greg
46 He voices Shrek
47 Currency replaced by the euro
49 Musician descended from Herman Melville (hence the name)
51 "Marble" deli loaf
52 Perot, formally
54 Exhaled response
56 Blood-type system
58 Ticket leftover
60 Childbirth assistants
64 Fictional typing tutor Beacon
66 What somehow happens to the vegetables in your TV dinner?
68 Beyond husky
69 Muppet with his pet fish Dorothy
70 Bullring yell
71 Cobb, for one
72 "Liquid sunshine"
73 Word that can precede either word in 17- and 66-across and 11- and 30-down

Down
1 N.Y.C. gallery
2 "One Day in the Life of ___ Denisovich"
3 Arrive at the airport
4 Woodard of "Desperate Housewives"
5 Chew, as with a rawhide bone
6 "Charter" tree
7 Prop, really
8 Polite refusal
9 "Think outside the box," for instance
10 James Bond creator Fleming
11 That sharp nail in the road you just ran over?
12 Abbr. on a mountain sign
13 "No Ordinary Love" singer
18 For real
22 Mid-tournament rounds
25 Atlantic catch
27 Bohemian
28 Camera setting
29 Frequent site for flight layovers
30 Tool used to clean out the pits in kiddie playlands?
32 Group of wives
34 Egg producer
35 Edgy
37 It may get jammed under your windshield wiper
39 Italian restaurant selections
42 Be a braggart
46 "___, it's full of stars!" ("2001" line)
48 Threw out
50 Tries for, in an auction
53 Awesome
55 Smarts
56 "Good Times" actor John
57 The Who's "___ O'Riley"
59 Horror actor Lugosi
61 Mane man?
62 Fuzzy style
63 Put away your carry-ons
65 "Love ___ Battlefield" (Pat Benatar)
67 "___ dreaming?

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