Crossword for Sat, 19/Nov/2016

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Across
1: Emulsifying agent

5: Boulevard liners

9: Help for the hapless

13: Whip mark

14: Sticky substances

16: Irritate

17: Spirited air

18: Group of eight

19: Unresisting

20: Oktoberfest souvenir

22: Encouraged

24: Turned to the right

26: More correct

27: Observed a religious holiday, perhaps

29: Photographer's stand

33: Repetitive computer program

34: San Antonio hoopsters

37: On-ramp sign

38: Kind of acid

40: Brags on

42: Antitoxins

43: Symbolized, with 'for'

45: Lieu

47: Brooding type?

48: Andre Agassi's game

50: New West Pointers

52: Crystal-lined rock

55: Mountain lake

56: Deficiency (and an alternate title for this puzzle)

60: Quite particular

63: Heavy book

64: Scope

66: Pleasant French resort?

67: Geishas' sashes

68: Dagwood's 'SKNXX-X'

69: Kind of hammer

70: Flower sites

71: Did the butterfly

72: Not his

Down
1: Piercing tools

2: Pony pace

3: Charge

4: Fixes one's laces

5: Teamwork deterrent

6: Ness, for one

7: Choral composition

8: Hunter's weapon

9: Highway system components

10: Deal with a shylock

11: White-faced performer

12: Kane's dying thought

15: Walk proudly

21: Takes home

23: Limited time

25: Pt. of USDA

27: Personal strength

28: Abbott and Costello and Burns and Allen

30: Adapted for grasping

31: Grimm goons

32: University bigwig

33: Failure

35: Same-old-same-old

36: Blended-family prefix

39: The legislative branch

41: Shaker contents

44: South Beach, e.g.

46: Unhearing

49: Lobby furniture

51: Portmanteau meal

53: Denounces strongly

54: Plumber's fitting

56: Word on an octagon

57: King of the road

58: Fail to include

59: Former capital of Italy?

61: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

62: Trees yielding elastic wood

65: President pro ___





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