Crossword for Thu, 19/Mar/2015

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Across
1: Power network

5: Barbershop sound

9: Cookwear

14: Frost's frost

15: Lunar effect

16: Prolonged attack

17: Emulsifying agent

18: Up to the task

19: Blubbery water

20: Good judgment

23: Wager

24: Not the real thing

25: Circle sections

27: Dances à la Valentino

31: Stout farm critters

34: Be rude in line

38: Communally owned

39: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

40: Show protectiveness

41: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

42: Influence group

43: State peremptorily

44: Problem source

45: Dunderheads

46: Not his

47: Loves to pieces

49: Dirty look

51: Uses a scraper, perhaps

56: Garden tool

58: Part of the evening news

62: Fill with joy

64: Rich soil

65: Not fooled by

66: Ostracized person

67: Mystique

68: Caroling song

69: Insignificant specks

70: Vexes

71: Withered
Down
1: Debra Messing character, whose name goes 'around' four answers in this puzzle

2: Extreme hardship

3: Mosque officials

4: Stuffed delicacy

5: Piece of poetry

6: Points

7: Emulate a couch potato

8: Part of a hammer head

9: Fall bloom

10: Chart shape

11: Takes up again

12: Shrek, e.g.

13: Digs of twigs

21: Web-footed mammal

22: Back talk

26: State of extreme confusion

28: Migrant worker, at times

29: Rich fertilizer

30: Gavel pounder's demand

32: Take digs at

33: Simon ___

34: Former Iranian ruler

35: Raise, as an anchor

36: Jumped too far

37: Nash forte

42: Holography device

44: Like a dangerous wire

48: Plant swellings

50: Pretty pitchers

52: Computer symbols

53: Craft entered gingerly

54: Any acetate, chemically

55: Mink wrap

56: Vital post on a ship

57: Table spread

59: Jai ___

60: Term of enlistment

61: 'Listen!'

63: Player's peg




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