Crossword for Sat, 16/Dec/2017

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Across
1: Have a fling?

5: Indian royals

10: Butter units

14: ___-tat

15: Destroy by degrees

16: Table spread

17: Analogous

18: Spanish 'n' topper, sometimes

19: Caroling song

20: Observes

22: Test-driver's car

23: Menu choice

24: Miles per hour, e.g.

26: Filing aids

29: Sing like a bird

33: Section in the credits

37: Little ones

39: Showed disapproval

40: 'Hey, that hurts!'

41: Animal track

43: Musical feature

44: Knot in a tree

46: Unspecified amount

47: Players may up it

48: Run out of clothes?

50: Quarterback's call

52: Multigenerational story

54: Wild boar, for one

59: Spider-Man slings them

62: Revealing

65: Angelic aura

66: Frighten

67: Geishas' sashes

68: Egg, classically

69: Anxieties

70: Speck of dust

71: Marginally sufficient

72: Jam chorus

73: Assist larcenously
Down
1: Go over

2: 'The Old ___ Bucket'

3: Circus prop

4: More with it

5: Quiet spots

6: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

7: Shock

8: Dangerous slitherer

9: Teetertotter

10: Famous ranch

11: Burn soother

12: Overflow

13: Fly alone

21: Wager

25: Check

27: Strikes

28: Bend a bit

30: Benefit

31: Post-Mardi Gras period

32: Upper hand

33: Machine parts

34: Your father's sister

35: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

36: Carol's kings, e.g.

38: Body of an organism

42: Bouncing off the walls

45: Full circle, on the track

49: Fuzzy dice and such

51: Take to court

53: Chocolate source

55: Small aperture

56: Food on a skewer

57: Ruling class

58: Put a counter to zero

59: Pronoun in a Hemingway title

60: Roof rim

61: Out-of-focus picture

63: Mountain lake

64: Long haul




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