Crossword for Fri, 24/Aug/2012

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Across
1: Small amount

4: Marshes

8: Attired

12: Hard or soft addition

13: 'Hamlet,' for example

14: Rowed the boat

16: 'Spenser: For ___' (Urich series)

17: Cardinal

18: Like an eccentric uncle

19: Culture media

21: Zigzag movement, at sea

23: Youngster

24: Emolument

25: Spun yarns

27: Vote to kill

29: Fall bloomers

30: Minor player, so to speak

31: Sternward

34: Like someone sawing logs, so to speak

37: Dove's domicile

38: Tint

39: Layered haircut

40: Groaner

41: Arrived

42: 'In what way?'

43: Overwhelmed

45: Balanced states

47: Hither's opposite

48: Deviation at sea

49: Mint

50: A pop

51: Monthly payment, for many

52: LP measure

55: Akebono's sport

58: Tiff

60: It's marked with a slash

62: Basketry twig

64: Footnote word

66: Object of pagan worship

67: Rumormonger

68: Word before irons or chains

69: Break-even amount

70: Soap site

71: Glide high

72: Whichever
Down
1: Eurasian forest

2: Duds

3: Whitetail buck

4: 28,800 seconds before midnight

5: Uplifts

6: Water sprite

7: Lip-___

8: Massachusetts cape

9: Clergyman's audience

10: Pretentious

11: Kind of calendar

12: Sound of a hard smack

15: Stain, as a fabric

20: Turn on an axis

22: Half hitch, e.g.

26: Troublemaker

28: Historical period

29: Actress Ryan

30: Debate side

31: Finder's cries

32: Seethe with rage

33: Golf ball pegs

34: Like burnt briquettes

35: 'Flee, fly!'

36: Suburbanite's pride

37: Bossy's chew

40: 'Treasure Island' pirate

41: Put up preserves

43: Bluto's assent

44: Armed conflicts

45: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

46: Small birds

49: Peter of Chicago

50: ''Dead ___ Society''

51: Boom box, e.g.

52: Hazardous gas

53: Dull, as text

54: Cheesy sandwich

55: Szechuan sauce source

56: Secondhand

57: Revealing dress

59: Racetrack stops

61: Typographic measure

63: Sound of a fan

65: Debussy's 'La ___'




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