Crossword for Wed, 4/Feb/2015

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Across
1: Boot binding

5: Cauterize

9: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

13: On vacation, perhaps

14: Hairdresser's offering

15: Well-ventilated

16: NASCAR venues

18: Sooty shaft

19: Set of supplies

20: 'Quiet!'

21: Salutes an honoree

23: Sets of fence steps

25: Look sullen

26: Positron, e.g.

32: Mormon Tabernacle Choir number

35: Bogs down

36: Quoits target

37: Ripped off

38: Four-poster, e.g.

39: Paint crudely

40: Merlot cask

41: Intense

43: Goes for

44: Study ace?

48: Settles a debt, with 'up'

49: Stand up to somebody

53: Dying fire bits

56: Beam with pride

58: Long-nosed fish

59: Horse color

60: Lively Italian folk dance

63: Take digs at

64: Extreme pain

65: Put ammo into

66: Kane's dying thought

67: Salacious

68: Pie à la ___

Down
1: Carefree adventures

2: Be in store for

3: Prickly plants

4: Spot

5: Geographical seven

6: Every one individually

7: 'Shoot'

8: Make like new

9: African adventure

10: Keeps from squeaking

11: Champagne type

12: Motion-carrying votes

14: U.S. coin word

17: '___ Came You' (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)

22: Inning enders

24: Long and lean

25: Greased for roasting

27: Drenches

28: Michelangelo masterpiece

29: Bloke

30: Galoot

31: Reduces in intensity

32: URL opener

33: Thy, nowadays

34: Hi-fi description

39: Follows persistently

41: Way off

42: Watch part

45: Inaugurated

46: 'The Gift of the Magi' device

47: 'To Renew America' writer Gingrich

50: Block house?

51: Healthy lunch choice

52: Make a swap

53: Units of work

54: Work hard

55: Paul's ox

56: Expand

57: Bring in

61: Historical period

62: Shade tree





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