Crossword for Sun, 6/Mar/2016

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Across
1: Doesn't just close

6: Firecracker sound

10: What some writers work on

14: Editor's insertion symbol

15: Uptight, slangily

16: Cornerstone datum

17: Tickle pink

18: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

19: Center of a cathedral

20: Observe

22: American voters before 1920

23: Girls' books hero Nancy

24: Red or Yellow

25: Rot-resistant wood

27: Include

30: Quartz varieties

32: Washing machine units

36: It's heard in a herd

37: Repairs the outfield

38: Show host

39: Sets on

41: Get

43: Minutes taker, perhaps

44: Young horse

45: Accomplished

46: Online VIP

47: Lung-related

48: Devious

49: Exclude

51: Diddly-squat

53: Nimble

56: Food scrap

57: Rake over the coals

61: Many millennia

62: Kaput

64: Model of excellence

65: Confront

66: Christmas trio

67: Morning rouser

68: Wapiti

69: Watermelon beginning

70: Geeks
Down
1: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

2: Like some excuses

3: Jack-in-the-pulpit

4: Flat-topped hills

5: Its depth is illusory

6: Good, ironically, in slang

7: Living creatures

8: Adam and Eve lacked them

9: Pancreas, e.g.

10: Set of identifying traits

11: Fruit cocktail fruit

12: Roof rim

13: Rowing team, e.g.

21: Stuffing stuff

26: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

27: Accumulate

28: Loony

29: Expresses affection for, with 'on'

31: NPR has none

33: Tannic and boric

34: Mischievous type

35: Shabby-looking

40: Pain pills

41: Hold up

42: Panaches

44: Ceremonial procession

47: Preadult insects

50: They may be sonic

52: Dip out, as soup

53: Decision made at home?

54: Sound of laughter

55: Geology subject

58: Duct product

59: Difficult

60: Boulevard liners

63: Free




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