Crossword for Thu, 10/Dec/2015

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Across
1: Sun screen

6: Pond organism

10: Thus

14: Contemptible person

15: Observed

16: Home of heroes?

17: Church recesses

18: Exposing human folly to ridicule

20: Waste

22: Surgeon's stitch

23: St. Louis gridder

24: American voters before 1920

25: Pinot Noir or Merlot

26: Ally

31: Tests that allow talking

32: Strike

33: Emulate a couch potato

37: Plate of glass

38: Gate alternative

40: Work hard

41: Deli side

42: Bon or won follower

43: Type of whale

44: Takes back

47: Jack Sprat no-no

50: Musclebound brute

51: Feed seed

52: Wards off

54: Like most homes

59: Victoria’s Secret offerings

61: Ooze out

62: Rewards for waiting?

63: Span's inches

64: First head of Homeland Security

65: Fruit for flavoring gin

66: Stepped on it

67: Operate the rudder

Down
1: Attired

2: Run gracefully

3: Vote off the island

4: One working with Linux, e.g.

5: They may be burning

6: Take for granted

7: Meadows

8: Obtain

9: Cordial

10: Browser function

11: Happen again

12: Dirty look

13: Tended a squeaky hinge

19: Ancient character

21: Small amount

24: Letters

26: Police

27: Spoken

28: Grandmother, affectionately

29: Took to the air

30: Prefix with virus

33: Mischief-makers

34: 'That ___ it!'

35: Old Italian money

36: Boulevard liners

38: Some adoptees

39: Drink to excess

43: Sporting dogs

44: Snitches

45: Pie-eyed

46: Picked up a lap

47: Almanac tidbits

48: Profit

49: Musical pace

53: Get ready to shine?

54: Kind of pool

55: Stage direction

56: Obnoxious

57: Upper hand

58: Whitetail buck

60: Muhammad Ali a.k.a. 'The Louisville ___'





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