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Crossword: ''Just do it''

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By MATT JONES | December 31, 2008

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Across
1 There are six in a fl. oz.
5 Pitcher Chin-hui
9 Quaint outburst
13 Replaceable shoe part
14 Stop-motion animated Fox series featuring Eddie Murphy
16 Handed-down history
17 Opposite of ecto-
18 John Kerry's wife
19 Gyro meat
20 Meadow mom
21 Hedonist of sorts
23 Consumer protection org.
24 Surgery sites, for short
25 Avian ___
26 Swingin' Torme
27 King of France
28 U.S. Navy base in Cuba, slangily
30 Big fat mouth
33 "W." director Oliver
35 Concept embodying yin and yang
36 "___ get this party started!"
37 "The Facts of Life" actress
38 They're doing it! (in peer circles)
43 Varnish or Viagra, perhaps
44 Taiwan's capital
48 Business presentation holders
53 He did it...his way! (in song)
55 She did it again! (in pop music)
56 Start of a refrain
57 Sucky attendance count
60 Humongous books
61 Peak in Greek myth
62 Get out of shape?
64 Hit with snowballs
65 "Are You All ___?" (Cab Calloway song)
66 2003 bestseller by Christopher Paolini
67 "Understood"
68 Spray that burns
69 With all the bells and whistles
70 "Seize ___!" (villain's cry)

Down
1 He did it! (in blameworthy situations)
2 Miss, in Mexico
3 Place to put your idols
4 ___-mo replay
5 He did it! (in certain novels)
6 Word repeated after "Que," in song
7 Impersonator
8 He speculated if he did it! (in a 2007 book)
9 Building annex
10 Travel out of country
11 Radius and ulna, for example
12 She does...them? (on film)
14 "Until next time," in instant messages
15 Fill to excess
21 California airport, on luggage tags
22 Golfer Ernie
29 Actress Gretchen
31 In-basket stamp: abbr.
32 Stub ___
34 The first "T" of TNT
39 Letter before iota
40 It'll grow on you
41 Lusty look
42 Deadly snake with venom 16 times more potent than a cobra
44 Loud weather phenomenon, as shortened in weather reports
45 Type of plane rescue over water
46 Momentarily
47 It's soft in the head
49 "Will you quit already?"
50 Interweave
51 Actress Sobieski of "Eyes Wide Shut"
52 Gambler's claim to beating the odds
54 Sky-blue
55 Shot to the forehead?
58 Bibliographic abbr.
59 Newman's Own competitor
62 ___ school
63 Memphis-to-Nashville dir.

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