Crossword for Mon, 22/Feb/2016

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Across
1: Rowing team, e.g.

5: Bay or day preceder

9: Pronounce indistinctly

13: Have the final say

14: Spot in the water

16: Ankles, anatomically

17: Object of pagan worship

18: Man of the ___ (clergyman)

19: Frodo's burden

20: Emulates a Silly Straw

22: List extenders

24: Turned to the right

26: Shows fright

27: Groups of staff officers

29: Surgically remove

33: Take one's cuts

34: Trade shows

37: Stage setting

38: Kind of acid

40: Like raisins

42: Akebono's sport

43: Thread holder

45: Modern form of communication

47: Came across

48: Andre Agassi's game

50: Future ferns

52: Soda flavor

55: Stretch across

56: In working order

60: Lizard cousin

63: Silent greeting

64: Diplomat

66: Computer signpost

67: Holiday nights

68: Scottish cake

69: Center of a cathedral

70: Cubbyholes?

71: Rushes

72: Beam with pride

Down
1: Den of thieves

2: Obnoxious

3: Stretching

4: Joined, permanently

5: Attack word

6: Sea spot

7: Stops bleeding

8: Two-masted craft

9: Accentuates

10: Hideaway

11: Arm bone

12: Fixes

15: 'They Died With ___ Boots On'

21: Lowly laborer

23: Miffed, with 'off'

25: More than slow, in retail

27: ___ diem

28: Foal's father

30: Universal

31: Shows up

32: Harness race pace

33: Failure

35: Backboard attachment

36: Geographical seven

39: The legislative branch

41: Cocktail hour assortment

44: Former capital of Italy?

46: Uses an ax

49: Stuffs to the gills

51: Yard chore

53: Small amount

54: Short stanza concluding a poem

56: Was in the red

57: Lay macadam

58: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

59: Depleted

61: De ___ (from the beginning)

62: Was certain of

65: 'Sure thing!'





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