Crossword for Wed, 24/Jun/2015

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Across
1: Gem surface

6: Spot and Fido

10: Casino card game

14: Strong adhesive

15: Puzzle piece

16: Kaput

17: Lowball

19: Frodo's burden

20: Church official

21: Litter member

22: Small whirlpool

23: Back talk

24: Starts of sneezes

26: Fall off, as the tide

28: Player's peg

29: Evil spirit (Var.)

33: Drainage reservoir

37: Heels

39: Moderate gray

40: Readily forged kind of iron

42: Steward

44: Greek gathering spot

45: Rational

47: Transmit

48: Just

50: What golfers try to break

51: Apiary occupant

52: 9 - 5, e.g.

53: Pencil remnant

57: October birthstone

60: 'What have we here?'

62: Manor

64: Plumb crazy

65: Garments that can make observers perspire

67: Major ___

68: Analogous

69: Map legend, usually

70: Let fall

71: Part of a violin

72: Ruins 007's martini?

Down
1: Rows between houses?

2: Breathing problem

3: Musical endings

4: Biz bigwigs

5: Rookie

6: Per hundred (Abbr.)

7: Passed by

8: Bishop Desmond

9: Permeated

10: Ancestors

11: Enthusiastic

12: Tear apart

13: Bacchanalian blast

18: Seize before it passes

25: Preliminary races

27: Diminish

30: Ponder

31: Sesame starter?

32: Exigency

33: Did the butterfly

34: Strongly advise

35: Scene of many a werewolf tale

36: Thoroughbred, or Dracula's obsession?

38: Navigational aid

41: Dorothy from Kansas

43: Bible text segments

46: Mouthed but unspoken

49: Beefeater, for one

53: Time on the job

54: Ankle bones

55: Absolute, as nonsense

56: Outshines

57: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

58: Eeyore's friend

59: Very top

61: Go backpacking

63: Goes downhill fast?

66: Cartridge contents





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