Crossword for Thu, 15/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Model wood

6: Bearded African grazer

9: Insulting remark

13: Juicy plants

14: Craving

15: Wash-off tattoo

16: Swings around

17: Abacus part

18: Surrender

19: Add water, e.g.

21: Turned topsy-turvy

23: Churchill's title

24: Down-to-earth

25: Biretta or beret

28: Margarita flavoring

30: Single-masted sailers

35: Night birds

37: Flower sites

39: 'Kama ___' (Hindu love manual)

40: One way to travel

41: Reactions to fresh remarks, maybe

43: Blue or potato follower

44: Cheerless

46: 'Blast!'

47: Rope fiber

48: Marsh plants

50: Pair

52: Piano man Charles

53: Rolling stone's lack, proverbially

55: KO caller

57: 90°, for 1

61: Worry hell out of

65: Detests

66: Veneer layer

68: Holding areas for newcomers?

69: Grimm goons

70: Little one

71: They may be popped

72: Puppy's plaint

73: Fireman's tool

74: Lovers' lane event
Down
1: Celebration

2: Friend

3: Bright, as a color

4: Visionaries

5: Go at

6: Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' word for 'scratch, dog-style'

7: Opposite of paleo-

8: Improper, as influence

9: Bop on the head

10: LSD, informally

11: Rip-roaring review

12: Ran in the wash

15: Resides

20: Takes a tumble, at times

22: Faux follower

24: Slows down

25: Stacks for the winter

26: Clued in

27: Practiced

29: It turns bread blue

31: 'Hey, that hurts!'

32: 'On the ___ hand...'

33: 'Jump, Jive, an' Wail' composer/bandleader Louis

34: Maudlin

36: Smelting residue

38: Fix a hot dog?

42: Gaze fixedly

45: Derelict

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

51: Take away

54: Dividing membranes

56: Stench

57: Sailor's greeting

58: Roid or road follower

59: Letters on a keyboard key

60: Leak slowly

61: Memory morsel

62: Selfsame

63: Vexes

64: Grocery shopper's reference

67: Bagel topper




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