Crossword for Thu, 12/Sep/2013

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Across
1: Faux follower

4: Spoken

8: Raise crops

12: Pip

13: Word with print or point

14: Brook catch

16: Sesame starter?

17: Musical pitch

18: Sheriff's band

19: Carefree adventures

21: Have a fling?

23: Observed

24: '___ me think about it'

25: Mouse, to an owl

27: Start to mature?

29: Rendered, as a compliment

30: Life story, for short

31: Peak stat

34: Threadlike part

37: Type type

38: Seek favor with

39: Put ammo into

40: Stewing vessel

41: On cloud nine

42: Liable

43: Piece of property

45: Balanced states

47: Soup veggie

48: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese

49: Browning of pages of verse, for example

50: Came across

51: Dove's domicile

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

55: Get an eyeful

58: Tiff

60: It's marked with a slash

62: Greets

64: 'Them' insects

66: Chamber music instrument

67: Obsolete repro

68: Blended-family prefix

69: Greed and gluttony

70: Adolescent

71: Soft drink

72: Suffers from

Down
1: Insect stages

2: Tornado siren, e.g.

3: Gone to Davy Jones's locker

4: Many a time

5: Overturned cars, perhaps

6: Get one's goat

7: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

8: Uploading initials

9: Responded to reveille

10: Thorny flower

11: Ponder

12: Take it easy

15: Half a score

20: Stretch across

22: Gyrate

26: Free

28: Nonsense

29: Goalie's protection

30: Repetitive computer program

31: Knocks for a loop

32: Unaccompanied

33: Little ones

34: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

35: Drink to excess

36: ___-tat

37: Dr. No, to Bond

40: Get nosy

41: Picked up a lap

43: Historical period

44: Scratching post users

45: Barfly

46: Golf ball pegs

49: In an urn, say

50: Free-for-all

51: 'Inferno' division

52: Lips, in Latin

53: 1990 Best Actor Jeremy

54: They're 16th of 26

55: Electrical unit

56: Pony pace

57: Margarita flavoring

59: Quarterback's call

61: Fancy-schmancy

63: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

65: Resort hotel





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