Crossword for Thu, 2/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Old hand

4: Drying-out place, familiarly

9: Diva's repertoire

14: Gun in the garage

15: Love, Italian style

16: Collectible shell

17: 'PUSH FOR ___'

18: Solution's strength

19: Succulent

20: Scalawag's confederate

23: Sanction

24: Plant swellings

28: Put into the overhead bin

29: Mend socks

32: Soup herb

33: Fall off, as the tide

36: Letters

38: Pig's digs

39: MAKEUP

42: Have markers out

44: Excite, slangily

45: Welcoming gift on Maui

46: Down-to-earth

48: Handwoven rugs

50: Cat's eye, sometimes

54: Bring to a boil

56: Tart quencher

59: Many yacht owners, e.g.

62: Bidder's amount

65: Cattle breed

66: Dyer's tub

67: Deceiving movement

68: Like the surface of the moon

69: Had a bite

70: Agent's take, maybe

71: Perfects

72: Ran in front

Down
1: Costs

2: Take back

3: Act the ham

4: Appraiser

5: Puts out

6: Breeding ground

7: Bailiwick

8: Ice mass

9: Performed on stage

10: Bellowed

11: November winners

12: It may be passed on the Hill

13: Like a wallflower

21: Word with cord or chord

22: Likable

25: Light spray

26: Peak stat

27: Devious

30: Simple organism

31: Word before sheet or session

34: Solicit alms

35: Piece of rodeo equipment

37: A white one is small

39: Paraphernalia

40: Verbalize

41: Japanese-American group

42: Unwrought iron

43: 'My Country Versus Me' author ___ Ho Lee

47: Regret greatly

49: Advertising catchphrase

51: Kind of insect stage

52: Conceptualize

53: Checked out

55: Dieter's concern

57: Become accustomed

58: Mardi Gras attire

60: Eyelid attachment

61: Wild about

62: Many a time

63: Finder's charge

64: Five-dollar bill





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