Crossword for Thu, 25/Feb/2016

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Across
1: Word after union or comparison

5: Section in the credits

9: Indian maid

13: Every one individually

14: Judgment payout

16: Starch from palms

17: Pleasant French resort?

18: Excessive enthusiasm

19: Stage piece

20: Threefold

22: Young horses

24: Raggedy Ann or Raggedy Andy

26: Pricey

27: Beats badly

31: Lake-bottom navigation impediments

34: Cyclotron bit

35: Puts away

37: Work with the hands

39: Brownie pieces

41: Roundball

43: Roman wrap

44: Long piano

46: Humans

48: Hansom vehicle

49: Blackthorn shrubs

51: Margaret or Diana, e.g.

53: Gradual decline

55: X-rated material

56: Construction-site sights

61: Charlie of the Rolling Stones

64: Mountain lion

65: Train lines?

67: Envelop

68: Chemical group derived from benzene

69: Weariness

70: Head hunters?

71: Loud utterance

72: Like one end of a pool

73: Garbage barge

Down
1: On cloud nine

2: 'Aquarius' musical

3: Western

4: Carbolic acid

5: Video recorder, for short

6: On vacation, perhaps

7: Rational

8: Three-note chord

9: 'American Idol' contestant

10: Tall tale

11: Bug-eyed

12: Brewery supply

15: Is bold

21: Silly pair?

23: Long and lean

25: It may get plastered

27: Tell all

28: What little hands indicate

29: Murmurs tenderly

30: Attack like a hawk

32: Like Ptolemy's universe

33: Epic accounts

36: Incite

38: Applies lightly

40: Ski resort's wish

42: A pink one means trouble

45: Unhearing

47: Frosty's composition

50: Dagwood's 'SKNXX-X'

52: Goes on all fours

54: Animal with twisted horns

56: Fix a hot dog?

57: Make healthy again

58: ___ nitrate

59: Patronize a fine restaurant

60: Turn on an axis

62: Folded food

63: Do a spit take

66: Nurse, as a zombie





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