Crossword for Wed, 14/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Proper niche

6: Links tee

9: Happy cat's sound

13: Filthy stuff?

14: Hardly hale

15: Smooth transition

16: Introduce, with 'in'

17: Squeeze (out)

18: Trapper's collection

19: Left clueless

21: Market watcher

23: Building wing

24: In the thick of

25: Mont Blanc, for one

28: Bigfoot's Asian cousin

30: Whets the appetite

35: Fen fuel

37: Gutter adjoiner

39: Having second thoughts

40: Screen-measuring unit

41: Has a go at

43: Filet mignon source

44: Quite high

46: Tour de force

47: Gray wolf

48: Large wasp

50: Litigates

52: Supplied

53: Ambassador's forte

55: St. Louis gridder

57: It leads to conflict

61: Dull

65: In conflict with, with 'of'

66: 'Not only that ...'

68: 'Daphne' division

69: Hints of rain

70: Coat of many colors?

71: Destroy by degrees

72: Tipplers

73: Undercover worker

74: Generous sort
Down
1: Favorable factor

2: Lascivious longing

3: Throbbing

4: ___ de menthe

5: À la King

6: Like the fabled piper

7: Man in a lodge

8: Shine

9: Banana discard

10: Really hard on the eyes

11: Road grooves

12: Unused portion

15: Trick-taking card game

20: Campaign poster plea

22: Louse egg

24: Most breezy

25: Imitative

26: Slowly, in music

27: An expectant father, e.g.

29: Surf partner, on some menus

31: Gangster's gal

32: Smoking gun, so to speak

33: 'Survivor' grouping

34: Church group

36: '___ Came You' (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)

38: Bridges or Brummell

42: FCC flouter Howard

45: Floral features

49: Feline, to Tweety

51: Answered with cheek

54: State of extreme confusion

56: Smaller than small

57: Money rolls

58: Curly coif

59: Word with beer or cellar

60: Young seals

61: Without expending much energy

62: Drudge

63: Prefix with European

64: Whitetail buck

67: Touch of winter




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