Crossword for Wed, 18/Jan/2017

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Across
1: Goads

6: Rorschach image

10: Hot tubs

14: Bullriding venue

15: Well-ventilated

16: Reserved parking space, e.g.

17: Adjective for some statesmen

18: Train for a title fight

19: Like a moonless night

20: Says 'I'm thinkin',' for example

22: Ripped apart

24: Brownie pieces

25: Theater section

28: Short stanza concluding a poem

32: Undercover worker

33: Cut a cord

34: Blows the horn

35: Kind of pole

36: Atomic number 56

37: Dug into

39: Chalice mates

40: In need of laundering

41: Hospital caution

42: Fall bloom

43: Cedes the pigskin

44: Noah's second son

47: '... ___ angels fear to tread'

48: Rice drink

49: Mouselike farmland pest

50: Word before ant or brat

52: Broadway offerings

54: Nincompoop

57: Throbbing

60: Culture media

61: Where the heart is, proverbially

62: 'Flee, fly!'

63: Bach piece

64: Police

65: City relative

66: Comes down hard

Down
1: Smooths ruffled feathers

2: Window shade, e.g.

3: Quirkiness

4: Works

5: Ruing the run, perhaps

6: ___-relief

7: Muhammad Ali a.k.a. 'The Louisville ___'

8: Preached

9: Rookie

10: Web-making part of a spider

11: Cygnet's mother

12: First zoo?

13: The limit, for some

21: On the schedule

23: Car dealers' incentives

26: Was in the red

27: Amethyst or tourmaline

29: Mineral deposit

30: Important work

31: Mao follower?

33: Less loaded

35: Stomachs

36: Teased

37: Fancy-schmancy

38: Ceremonial practice

39: Rock music genre

40: Coping device

41: Functioning as

43: Classic Hitchcock opus

44: Something to pay

45: Warning, old-style

46: Complicated situations

49: Nebulous

51: Naval post?

53: Piece of water sport equipment

54: Pot ingredient?

55: Seek favor with

56: Troublemaker

58: 'In what way?'

59: Hither's opposite





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