Crossword for Sat, 23/Dec/2017

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Across
1: Ambassadorial fashion accessory

5: Earthenware

10: Wrench, e.g.

14: Mercury or Saturn

15: Religious rationalist

16: Gumbo vegetable

17: Tickled-pink feeling

18: Thick

19: Scratching post users

20: Dispense

22: Dermatologist's concern

23: Logic circuit element

24: Soft seat

26: Potent punches

31: Most recent

35: Veneer layer

36: Kind of grilled sandwiches

38: Circus employee

39: Keeps from squeaking

41: Minutes taker, perhaps

43: Soft drink

44: Reed instruments

46: Puts the kibosh on

48: Dance like Hines

49: Unlike a plane

51: Adds, as to the pot

53: Did the butterfly

55: Sound of a fan

56: Mountain lion

59: Gog and Magog at Armageddon, e.g.

65: Freshly

66: Preceder of box or light, in slang

67: Weight allowance

68: Span's inches

69: Mother-of-pearl

70: Mountain goat's perch

71: Many a retired thoroughbred

72: Mirthful states

73: Shot in the arm
Down
1: Sprawling narrative

2: Word heard on December 31

3: Tobacco pipe part

4: Garden work

5: Remarkable items

6: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

7: Dryer residue

8: Dunderheads

9: Unsaturated alcohol

10: Some Bach pieces

11: Pretty good

12: Table scraps

13: Bringing up the rear

21: Average

25: Jack Sprat no-no

26: Thread holder

27: Cover story

28: Fishline material

29: Hgts.

30: Manuscript markings

32: Be a ham

33: Chrysler product

34: Game keepers?

37: Frosty's composition

40: Enjoyed a plank on a playground

42: Runs

45: Coping device

47: Place for the catbird?

50: Kind of form

52: Colonial roofing material

54: ___ auxiliary (verb like can or might)

56: Bad reviews

57: Single thing

58: Maître d's offering

60: Cats' prey

61: The death of the party?

62: Not one

63: Drainpipe bend

64: Utah's state flower




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