Crossword for August 19, 2006

ACROSS 1. Sword 5. Bustle 8. Requests 12. Bacterium 13. Not dead 15. An island in the Marianas 16. A Semitic people 17. One more than 6 18. Possessing the necessary skills 19. Vanished 22. Cat sound 23. Fifty-two in Roman numerals 24. Hare-like rodent 26. Picture taker 29. Toils 31. Local Area Network 32. Pass along 34. Travels through water 36. Freezes 38. Apologetic 40. Trim 41. Glass containers for flowers 43. Daub 45. Estimated Time of Arrival 46. Capital of Canada 48. Orb 50. Ceremonial Maori war dance 51. Writing tool 52. South-southeast 54. Radiotherapy 61. A pigeon shelter 63. Hyrax 64. Travelled on a horse 65. Seed coat 66. Precisely or squarely 67. Sheep 68. Not front 69. Third person singular female 70. Where the sun rises
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	1. A mild expletive 2. A beautiful and graceful girl 3. Historical periods 4. Preserve a dead body 5. Downwind 6. Prima donna 7. Across 8. A commander in the Ottoman Empire 9. U-boat sailor 10. Cabbage 11. Fish duck 13. Hopes for 14. Bowel cleansing	20. A support for a bridge 21. Pats 25. Lines 26. What chocolate comes from 27. Pain-killer for surgery 28. Alewife fish 29. Stringed instruments 30. Strike 31. Fifty-four in Roman numerals 33. Forelimb 35. Resort 37. Stiff hair or bristle 39. Barking in a high-pitched tone	42. Japanese rice wine 44. Mother of Zeus (Greek mythology) 47. Divisions of a hospital 49. Main course 52. Forms on a wound 53. Rail bird 55. Gentle blows 56. Nursemaid 57. A citizen of Denmark 58. A midwestern state 59. Lyric poems 60. Where birds live 62. Member of the moose family