Crossword for Thu, 15/Dec/2016

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Across
1: In mourning

4: Bums change

8: Rorschach image

12: Morse's creation

13: Spoken

14: Employee's reward

16: Seed covering

17: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

18: Keno's cousin

19: Basketry twig

21: Like one end of a pool

23: Where to see the alphabet float

24: Where to find a browser

25: Fossey's focus

27: Get going

29: Diploma holder

30: Came across

31: Upsilon follower

34: Treated with great care

37: Fiddlesticks

38: St. Louis gridder

39: Harbinger

40: Run smoothly

41: Brilliant stroke

42: Stain, as a fabric

43: Card pack foursome

45: Big bangs

47: Yuletide worker

48: Hither's opposite

49: Like most colleges

50: 'Treasure Island' pirate

51: It's cast, then counted

52: Punch quickly

55: Heavy book

58: Train for a title fight

60: Germ cell

62: Covered with creepers

64: Capping

66: Communally owned

67: Viola's bigger cousin

68: Patronize a fine restaurant

69: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

70: Digs of twigs

71: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

72: Shape with cutting blows
Down
1: Steep in wine

2: Improvise

3: Proofreader's mark

4: Go, with 'on down'

5: Worn down

6: Combat challenges

7: Fruit for flavoring gin

8: Unit of oil production, briefly

9: Unfettered

10: Not fooled by

11: Bishop Desmond

12: Food, informally

15: Absorb, with 'up'

20: Exceptional

22: 'That was close!'

26: Goalie's protection

28: Tag players

29: Beefeater, e.g.

30: May celebrant

31: Lions and Tigers and Bears

32: ___ monde (society)

33: Mischief-makers

34: Portend

35: ___ nitrate

36: Complaint

37: Commuter's option

40: Brooding type?

41: Lowlife

43: Bluto's assent

44: Carnation's 'contented' creatures

45: Repetitive computer program

46: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

49: Ring around the sun

50: Strips

51: Prophetic

52: Unit of work or energy

53: It shows the way

54: Gold medal-winning

55: Personal quirk

56: Where cookies might crumble

57: Eminem's '8 ___'

59: Hippies' homes

61: Fancy-schmancy

63: Morse code component

65: A pop




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