Crossword for Thu, 6/Dec/2012

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Across
1: Indian royals

6: Half hitch, e.g.

10: Group of three

14: Wide-open

15: Stellar phenomenon

16: Round of applause

17: Like God

19: Dirt, so to speak

20: Capital of Phoenix?

21: Chap.'s partner

22: Spicy ingredient

24: Modern writers' aids

28: Mao follower?

29: Circles of angels

30: Bragg or Dix

33: Place for tanning

34: Liable

37: West End attraction

40: Sum and substance

42: Curse

43: Oboes, e.g.

45: FYI cousin

46: Lustrous

47: Mindless card game

49: Mottled inlay material

54: Opposed

55: Van Gogh's love offering

56: Diamond judge

59: Trig ratio

60: One taking off, maybe

64: Was certain of

65: Course climax

66: Remove graphite or graffiti

67: Stitched

68: What Wendy does to reattach Peter's shadow

69: Safety device

Down
1: Imitate Popeye

2: Fluish feeling

3: Gags

4: Musclebound brute

5: Aces, e.g.

6: Thumbscrew ridge

7: Nice handle

8: Some gametes

9: Hybrid fruit

10: Deems

11: Where the deer and the antelope play

12: Deduce

13: Tabu emissions

18: Vital post on a ship

23: Computer symbols

25: Sandwich bread

26: Dance part?

27: Compels to go

30: Uploading initials

31: 'What have we here?'

32: Mardi Gras luminary

33: Searches for

34: Aardvark's tidbit

35: Per hundred (Abbr.)

36: Half a score

38: Chamber pieces

39: Palliates

41: Count's counterpart

44: Stain, as a fabric

46: Here and there

47: 'I beg your pardon?'

48: Mountaintop homes

49: Busy work

50: Just like ewe?

51: Decide to look at more issues

52: Fraying spots

53: Type of landing

57: City near Scottsdale

58: Warm up, for short

61: Fireman's tool

62: Crow's cry

63: Food scrap





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