Puzzles

Crossword: ''Best of the decade part one''

Starting with 2000-2001

By MATT JONES | December 9, 2009

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Across
1 Health services provider for seniors
9 Goa garments
14 Vaporize
15 Dog tag, e.g.: abbr.
16 OutKast album that rated #1 on Metacritic's Top Albums of 2000
17 Island in the Mediterranean
18 It can get high every day
19 Spine-chilling
21 Yellowfin tuna variety
22 Denom. of South Carolina's Allen University
23 His "Goblet of Fire" was Amazon.com's #1 best-selling book of 2000
26 Language that gives us "schadenfreude"
28 Pissed-off looks
29 Confesses (to)
33 H, in a fraternity
34 With "The," sitcom that made Time's 10 Best TV Series of 2001 list
38 Bolivian president Morales
39 "Pig's blood at the prom" movie
40 Be ready for
43 May-December difference, perhaps
47 Gamespy.com's PC Game of the Year, 2001
51 Junkyard dog's warning
52 Former Texas Rangers pitcher Kameron
53 Swedish politician Olof assassinated in 1986
54 "Knowing" star Nicolas
55 Talk show ending in 2011
57 Compact that made Car & Driver's Best Car of 2001 list
60 Rhone tributary
61 Complaint when the lights are out
62 Belly button that collects lint
63 Bases, chemically speaking

Down
1 Personal period
2 Dodgy sort?
3 Comedian Cook
4 Tats
5 Fortune magazine subj., perhaps
6 "Up" actor Ed
7 More wintry
8 Sweetums
9 San ___, CA (Hearst Castle locale)
10 Palindromic Oklahoma city
11 Be sympathetic with
12 How sugar is sometimes served
13 Elevator alternative
16 Men-only
20 Numerical Internet addresses: abbr.
23 Kate Hudson's mom Goldie
24 Years, to Nero
25 [snicker]
27 Angel in Mormon history
30 "Hey, wait a ___!"
31 "Kill Bill" star Thurman
32 Course goal
34 Belize's capital
35 She sings "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"
36 Ending for demo or Dixie
37 "Ah, whatever" follower
40 House Speaker Nancy
41 Greek god with a lyre, to the French
42 Grp. once battled by Jesse Helms
44 Showed up on (the cover of)
45 Defends one's side
46 Current Palm products
48 Like Santa's helpers
49 Oil company that merged with BP
50 Played on TV Land
54 "___ fan tutte"
56 Folk rocker DiFranco
58 CSI sample
59 U.S. consumer protection agcy.