Crossword for Fri, 16/Dec/2016

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Across
1: Type of seed

6: Madame of the sty

9: Low cart

13: Little egg

14: Garden tool

15: Demonstrate decisively

16: Showed a show again

17: 'Caught you!'

18: Word with worm or moth

19: Straight

21: Good shots in quoits

23: Vichy water

24: Lip-___

25: At bats

28: Sow's sustenance

30: Xs on an envelope

35: It may bite your shorts

37: Jack of 'Hawaii Five-O'

39: Close to home

40: ___ cheese

41: Radar reading

43: Pretentious

44: Upgrade weapons

46: Decision made at home?

47: Banana discard

48: Discombobulates

50: Turns red, perhaps

52: Bitterly amusing

53: St. Louis gridders

55: Golf range surface

57: Soup eater's square

61: Largest living bird

65: Be in store for

66: American voters before 1920

68: Nouveau ___

69: Improvised musical accompaniments

70: Kind of moron?

71: Crosswise to the keel

72: Spots

73: Birth certificate notation

74: Annoying ones
Down
1: Breathing space

2: Kaput

3: Contaminant-free

4: Proper niche

5: Nosy Parkers

6: Old-fashioned conveyance

7: Chimpanzee's hoot

8: Needing a nap

9: Bummer

10: Repetitive routine

11: State peremptorily

12: Deep desires

15: Plan tentatively, with 'in'

20: Quiet spells

22: Cartridge contents

24: Butter and peanut butter

25: Blackest part of a shadow

26: Pushed a barge with a stick

27: Lieu

29: 'Clumsy me!'

31: Word before opera or dish

32: 'The Turn of the ___'

33: Cafeteria customer

34: With an ulterior motive

36: Throw hard

38: Swim upstream, in a sense

42: Judges

45: Is worthy of

49: Japanese honorific

51: Despotic ruler

54: Internal notes

56: 'Survivor' grouping

57: Conserve

58: On vacation, perhaps

59: Like some excuses

60: Rewards for waiting?

61: Figurine mineral

62: Keeps cold

63: On-line discussion

64: Gropes for words

67: Devon river




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