Crossword for Thu, 27/Nov/2014

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Across
1: Family nickname

5: Body of military officers

10: St. Louis gridders

14: ___-tat

15: ___ firma

16: Share a border with

17: Bug-eyed

18: Fought the clock

19: Statistics

20: After-dinner drink

22: Microwave device

23: Spot

24: Tally keepers

26: Seasonal stats

30: Informal goodbyes

31: Detach, in a way

32: Acorn dropper

33: Line

37: Many a retired thoroughbred

38: Marital antonym of 'better'

40: Listen to

41: Use a whetstone

42: Run smoothly

43: Have one's say

44: Casino machines, briefly

46: Hill tops

47: Juicy fruits

50: Bar

51: Battery terminal

52: 2002 Broadway smash

58: Brighten

59: Some candy containers

60: Run gracefully

61: ___ nitrate

62: Come together

63: Sesame starter?

64: Back of the neck

65: Flat-topped hills

66: Ties the knot
Down
1: Diploma holder

2: Roid or road follower

3: Bit to split

4: Christmas trio

5: Gets off the beaten path

6: Hairdresser's offering

7: Circle sections

8: Flowers of the iris family

9: Streaking, once

10: Screen with blips

11: Put down

12: Silencer

13: Movie greats

21: Adolescent

22: It's heard in a herd

25: Bakery buy for a birthday

26: Succulent

27: Not fooled by

28: Created a web site?

29: One way to ride a horse

30: Bulblike crocus parts

34: Geishas' sashes

35: Monthly payment, for many

36: Turns red, perhaps

38: 'Hold your horses!'

39: Upstaged

43: Eyes

45: Old soap ingredient

46: Bad spells?

47: Baal bondsman?

48: Inner self

49: Tentacled creature

50: Michelangelo masterpiece

53: World War II partnership

54: Till the ground

55: Lassoer's cord

56: Mocked by imitating

57: Deep desires

59: Bleacher creature?




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