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By MATT JONES  |  September 23, 2009
 
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| 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
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