Crossword for Sat, 31/Dec/2011

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Across
1: 'The Sabbath' painter Chagall

5: Fruit with a stone

9: Got larger

13: Way off

14: Where the heart is, proverbially

15: Depart

16: Pump part

17: Applies pressure to

18: Clarence in 'It's a Wonderful Life'

19: Stomachs

21: Father Time feature

22: Designs

23: Send, as to a specialist

25: Supplied

27: Deli meats

31: Quick curtsies

35: Coping device

37: Part of one's eye makeup

38: Gumbo ingredients

40: Scrooge's exclamation

42: Links with a space station

43: Gives a speech

45: Leg, to Legs Diamond

47: Solar beams

48: Far from moderate

50: Links tee

52: Some Hindu music pieces

54: Certain believers

59: Office mgt.

62: 1000 year spans

64: Perch in a coop

65: Down in the dumps

66: Mountain lake

67: Stops bleeding

68: Blue fish in 'Finding Nemo'

69: Scratched (out)

70: Not his

71: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

72: Crimsons

Down
1: Schooner staffs

2: In progress

3: Make a comeback

4: Bass basket

5: Musical units

6: Galoot

7: Yellowish brown pigment

8: Complicated situations

9: Power source

10: Indian music

11: At all

12: Do the work of a pipefitter, maybe

15: Like wine bottles

20: KO caller

24: A long way off

26: Smidge

28: Isinglass

29: Like a moonless night

30: Back talk

31: Rude person

32: Gumbo vegetable

33: Pitt of 'Ocean's Twelve'

34: Takeoff experts

36: Tongues do it

39: Certain trigonometric ratios

41: Come to pass

44: Droop

46: Groups of numbers

49: Greek consonant

51: 'Golly!'

53: Country towers

55: Bury

56: Unlaced moccasin

57: Worn out

58: Smooths, in a way

59: Foot part

60: Loser to Clinton in '96

61: Scene of many a werewolf tale

63: Hide in the shadows





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