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Crossword: 'The big mix-up'

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By MATT JONES  |  August 23, 2006

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Across
1 Type of metabolic rate
6 Senator ___ Bailey Hutchison
9 Stank emanations
14 It's spent away from everyone else
16 Resident on the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula
17 Struggles between the rich and poor
18 Watch
19 Sorta positive wish
20 Word before sales or tax
21 Off-base designation
22 Gender-bending engine part?
26 Freestyle, maybe
27 What boxers or wrestlers ultimately fight for
28 Hydrocarbon suffix
29 Spacey role of 2006
30 Skylab launchers
34 "Lookin' Out My Back Door" band, for short
35 They're seen under slides
37 Network that will cease to exist 9/15/06
38 Feature of a messy room
40 Zombie's desire
41 Far from a drama queen
42 Block
44 Naughty-sounding bird
45 "I know what I'm talking about"
46 ___ colada
47 Genre pioneered by Kool DJ Herc
50 Belgian composer Cesar
52 Film that happens aboard the Nostromo
53 Crater maker
56 Purplish shade
57 Racing fanatic
58 Gives grub to
59 Photographer Goldin
60 Fortune tellers
Down
1 He duetted with Costello on 1998's "Painted from Memory"
2 Chore reward
3 "Passions," for one
4 Photographer Adams
5 It may be more, to some
6 Sephia maker
7 UAL rival
8 Word screamed during orgasms
9 Old person, derogatorily
10 Outlandish number
11 Bottled water brand from Quebec
12 Prepare a necktie
13 Trig ratio
15 Movie rave
20 Requirement to get into a tournament
23 Snappy comebacks
24 Deep down
25 Element named for a mythical Greek weeper
27 LOL or WTF, e.g.
31 Dubya, while governor
32 Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"
33 Challenging request
36 Fast flier that stopped commercial use in 2005
39 "High Times" reader, typically
43 Bucking rodeo beasts
46 Deconstruct a sentence
47 Almost most
48 "Would ___ to you?"
49 Feature of a messy room
51 Cones' counterparts
53 AOL competitor
54 Org. that tracks mercury emissions
55 Album with "Jeremy" and "Even Flow"
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