Crossword for Wed, 17/Oct/2018

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Across
1: Uploading initials

4: Sturdy hand shovel

9: Land maps

14: 'What have we here?'

15: Curvilinear

16: Bad press?

17: Just released

18: Rain clouds

19: Holding areas for newcomers?

20: Fashionable doggy?

23: Get ready for a fight

24: Annual October event, with 'the'

25: Molten rocks

27: Blubber

28: Your umbrella, perhaps

30: Confronts

33: Thresholds

37: Teamwork deterrent

38: Buffalo gridders

39: Seek favor with

40: Kept an eye on

43: Emulated Endymion

45: Scrapes and scratches

46: Polynesian paste

47: Tribal healer

50: Wake-up noises

54: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

55: Offspring of Bold Ruler and Somethingroyal

59: Head off

61: Method of reasoning

62: Scheduled

63: Trial setting

64: Square things

65: Original sinner

66: Adjective for some statesmen

67: Flat-topped hills

68: Pinot Noir or Merlot
Down
1: Type types

2: 'Ta-da!'

3: Word with cord or chord

4: Colonel who got his wings?

5: Like a schoolmarm

6: Very top

7: Obligation

8: Browser function

9: Bits and pieces, e.g.

10: Like cherries jubilee

11: Crosswise to the keel

12: ___ firma

13: Loses weight (with 'down')

21: Pleasant French resort?

22: Islamic chiefs

26: Obtain

28: Cobbler's supply

29: It turns bread blue

30: Not masc.

31: In the past

32: Debate side

33: Like some straits

34: She may get sheared

35: The old man

36: Barfly

38: Held up, as a heavy weight

41: Mao follower?

42: Kitchen appliance

43: Comforts

44: False witness

46: Thin coating

47: Prevent, with 'off'

48: Bad housing

49: Change for the better

51: 'Easy ___'

52: Purple shade

53: Spirited horse

56: Mum one

57: Repetitive routine

58: Qualities of the conceited

60: Cry over spilled milk




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