Crossword for Wed, 23/May/2012

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Across
1: Coping device

4: Element removed from gasoline

8: Bollux up

12: Dorothy from Kansas

13: Friend

14: Type of bond or order

16: Totes

17: Strategem

18: Bullriding venue

19: Squadrons

21: Village or hamlet

23: Average

24: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

25: 'That was close!'

27: Place (a bet)

29: Preconception

30: What golfers try to break

31: Peaty place

34: Yo-yo part

37: Informer

38: Vichy water

39: Put ammo into

40: Brown paper container

41: They often clog the major arteries

42: Diamond judge

43: Act the butterfly

45: Driving force

47: Obtain

48: Tongues do it

49: Marking float

50: Wood-dressing tool

51: Bellhop's burdens

52: Bitterly amusing

55: Acorn droppers

58: Thy, nowadays

60: '... and baby makes ___'

62: Wide-open

64: Pretentious

66: Plow the field

67: Theater lobby

68: On the house

69: Dark greenish blue

70: Cymbal relative

71: Put into piles

72: Get nosy

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1: Where to find a sweater

2: Chilly

3: Adam of 'Batman'

4: Guiding principle

5: Says 'I'm thinkin',' for example

6: Give permission for

7: Batik worker

8: Cone producer

9: Bananas or nuts

10: Annul

11: Funeral stand

12: Bummed out

15: Dot follower

20: Gyrate

22: Course of action

26: Crone

28: First zoo?

29: Ebay posting

30: Corkscrew-tailed animal

31: Bridges or Brummell

32: Galley propellers

33: Burst of wind

34: Counterfeit coin

35: Heavy book

36: Spellbound

37: Jack Sprat no-no

40: Important

41: Blubber

43: Basketball position (abbr.)

44: Likely to loaf

45: Harbor helper

46: Large group

49: Trade without money

50: Colorado ski resort

51: Pack animal

52: More sardonic

53: Race with batons

54: Loud utterance

55: Loutish fellow

56: Bug-eyed

57: It's a bout done

59: Blockheads

61: URL opener

63: Energy unit

65: In the time left





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