Crossword for Tue, 2/Oct/2012

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Across
1: Cul-de-___ (dead end roads)

5: Skin designs, for short

9: Pinch hitters

13: Drainpipe bend

14: Covered with creepers

16: October birthstone

17: Entangle

18: ___ firma

19: Morse's creation

20: Top hat accompaniment

22: Forbore

24: Abrupt bit of thunder

26: Withered

27: Gorbachev's policy

31: Indian lute

34: Feed seed

35: Movie greats

37: Loads a liner

39: Responsibility

41: Double agents

43: Long-necked instrument

44: Salon orders

46: Like old bread

48: Like cherries jubilee

49: Official stickers

51: Apes

53: It may get plastered

55: Lion's pride

56: Felt-tip alternative

61: Bridge position

64: Burn soother

65: Smoking gun, so to speak

67: Exceptional

68: Vies for the break, in billiards

69: Dividing membranes

70: Bit to split

71: South Beach, e.g.

72: Person of vision

73: Piano's 88

Down
1: Acct. summary

2: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

3: Lampoon

4: Incantations

5: ___ for tat

6: State peremptorily

7: Word before irons or chains

8: Feudal laborers

9: Kind of norms

10: Very familiar with

11: Summoned

12: Kane's dying thought

15: Is bold

21: Lacking, along the Loire

23: Nutmeg covering

25: Flower sites

27: Gunk

28: Freeway divisions

29: Dupes

30: Overused, as a phrase

32: Contaminate

33: Fix loose laces

36: Junction

38: Tennis match divisions

40: Most compact

42: Visit a run-down neighborhood

45: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

47: Sparkle

50: Puts the kibosh on

52: Arctic outerwear

54: Employs

56: Like some eagles

57: Jai ___

58: Theater section

59: 'Ix-nay'

60: Package carrier

62: 'Aeneid' city

63: Gropes for words

66: A long way off





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