Crossword for Wed, 26/Mar/2014

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Across
1: Rm. coolers

4: ___ facto

8: Word on an octagon

12: Go postal

13: Cistercian, e.g.

14: Type of bond or order

16: Take pleasure in

17: Like Richard and Yorick?

18: Bring the food

19: Campaign poster plea

21: Put ammo into

23: Blue fish in 'Finding Nemo'

24: Tie the knot

25: Assist larcenously

27: Surgery sites, briefly

29: Tickled pink

30: 'Whew!'

31: Hardly hale

34: More pretentious

37: The death of the party?

38: Fade away

39: City name ending, sometimes

40: Brown paper container

41: Cooped (up)

42: Employ

43: Fossey's focus

45: Balanced states

47: 'Friendly' pronoun

48: Schlep

49: Crucifix

50: Wager

51: Destiny

52: Preserves preserver

55: Prospector's bonanza

58: Tiff

60: Germ cell

62: Helps with the heist

64: LSD, informally

66: Communally owned

67: Obsolete repro

68: In ___ (unmoved)

69: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

70: Listened to the bears

71: Miffed, with 'off'

72: Shape with cutting blows
Down
1: Old-womanish

2: Hardened

3: What some writers work on

4: Troublemaker

5: Combined

6: High-hatter

7: Gumbo vegetable

8: Attack word

9: Natterjacks, e.g.

10: Not fooled by

11: Cruise ship terminal

12: Did in, old-style

15: Blubber

20: Story by Chaucer

22: One way out

26: Block passage through

28: 'The Catcher in the ___'

29: Job for the Blues Brothers

30: Peaty place

31: Roman date

32: Pat response

33: 'Shall we?' response

34: Share a border with

35: Hurried activity

36: Deuce topper

37: ___-relief

40: Solicit alms

41: Goalie's protection

43: Tap output

44: Positions

45: Barfly

46: Corn-growing regions

49: Ostrich or emu

50: Kind of nut in 'South Pacific'

51: Prima ___

52: Unit of work or energy

53: It shows the way

54: Unused portion

55: Flight from justice

56: Geishas' sashes

57: Test-driver's car

59: Days gone by

61: Fancy-schmancy

63: Divot material

65: Bomb that's a bomb




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