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By MATT JONES  |  September 23, 2009
 
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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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