Crossword for Sun, 24/Dec/2017

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Across
1: Like a dungeon

5: Piano piece?

10: Fuzz

13: Way off

14: 'Laugh-In' comedienne Judy

15: Major ___

16: Soup with pasta

18: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

19: Number on a tag

20: Train for a title fight

21: Affectionate

22: Support a motion

24: Type of poetry

26: Repugnant

29: Kitchen riser

32: Hide in the shadows

35: Handyman's vehicle

36: Structure on The Strip

37: Wrath

38: Mocks

40: Touch of winter

41: Croesus's holdings

43: Merlot cask

44: Soaks, as flax

45: Be a cast member of

46: Soothing

48: Magazine copy

50: City on the Volga

54: Behaves

56: A lot

59: Wise people

60: Sooty shaft

61: Witch craft?

63: Crimsons

64: Ziegfeld offering

65: Puzzle piece

66: Have markers out

67: Trim

68: Bunch of bulls
Down
1: Soft-pedals?

2: Eager, to the max

3: Frenzied

4: Parboil

5: Per hundred (Abbr.)

6: Dumbo's 'wings'

7: Word following eye or nose

8: Historical records

9: Skeptical

10: Popular local anesthetic

11: Last word in prayer

12: Toy boat spot

15: Flies in the face of

17: Transmit

23: Jackknife and others

25: Handwoven rugs

27: Crew implement

28: Come together

30: Blue funk

31: Spinning toys

32: Former capital of Italy?

33: Kind of acid

34: Moral virtue

36: Coppers

38: Cubbyholes?

39: Pester for payment

42: Serpent's warnings

44: Competitor's chance for redemption

46: Made ready, with 'up'

47: Glasgow girl

49: Blackest part of a shadow

51: Quick-thinking

52: Happen again

53: Responded, on 'Jeopardy!'

54: Curly coif

55: Ball of yarn

57: De ___ (from the beginning)

58: Thy, nowadays

62: American voters before 1920




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