Crossword for Fri, 11/Mar/2016

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Across
1: Some punches

6: Days gone by

10: Sales staff members

14: La Scala offering

15: Ceremonial practice

16: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

17: Soft headgear

18: Tributes in verse

19: Lion's pride

20: Taste and smell

22: Tennis match divisions

24: Half a score

25: Leak slowly

27: Least likely to understand

29: Being unemployed

33: Fade away

34: Island souvenirs

35: Plots of ground

37: Plot device

41: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

42: Blackthorn shrubs

44: Cry over spilled milk

45: Potatoes

48: Cut, as grass

49: Ruing the run, perhaps

50: Boil fluid

52: Cogent

54: First-aid devices

58: Soup herb

59: 'Friendly' pronoun

60: Word before opera or dish

62: Jungle vines

66: Exceptional

68: Got grounded?

70: Plotter's output

71: One working with Linux, e.g.

72: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

73: Thick-skinned mammal

74: City near Scottsdale

75: Go postal

76: Sample, as the soup
Down
1: Wimbledon hits

2: Olympic weapon

3: Flowerless decorative plant

4: Flowing hair

5: Lustrous cotton fabric

6: Old hand

7: They might be visual

8: Spirited horse

9: Checked out

10: LP measure

11: Fill with joy

12: Johnnycakes

13: Exhausted

21: Appears to be

23: Blue funk

26: Religious song

28: Stitch up

29: Misfortunes

30: Like one end of a pool

31: Stead

32: Animal track

36: Stitched

38: Hulks pump it

39: 'Natch!'

40: Miffed, with 'off'

43: Slow critter

46: Printer spec.

47: Phoenix roundballers

49: Sunrooms

51: Summer ermines

53: Act of disrespect

54: Hit strings

55: Cycle part

56: Laptop instruments of yore

57: Place for tanning

61: Sandwich bread

63: Siestas

64: PDA entry

65: Loafer, for instance

67: Long time

69: Go over




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