Crossword for Sat, 25/Feb/2017

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Across
1: Padrone

5: Water balloon impact sound

10: Spot and Fido

14: Lunar valley

15: Figure of speech

16: Count's counterpart

17: Burn soother

18: Perch in a coop

19: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

20: Pipette kin

22: 'I'm better than you' sort

23: Firearm

24: 'Caught you!'

26: Potency

31: Sacred places

35: 'You ___ here'

36: More dry and withered

38: Get going

39: Teeming (with)

41: More callow

43: Hearts or diamonds

44: Things in a shopping basket

46: Piano piece?

48: Resort hotel

49: Annual October event, with 'the'

51: Tower over

53: Out of work? (abbr.)

54: Polynesian paste

55: Dad

58: Skiers' cover-alls?

65: Single thing

66: Put a new price on, say

67: Roof rim

68: Lion's pride

69: Old witch

70: Place at an angle

71: Microbrewery offerings

72: Pumps up

73: Little gull

Down
1: Scottish hillside

2: Like some garage floors

3: Fruit for flavoring gin

4: Heavy hammer

5: Not as diluted

6: Stage piece

7: Roller coaster feature

8: Church recess

9: Colorful aquarium fish

10: Russian Revolution participants

11: Make money

12: Group of three

13: Hunk of cheese

21: Ballpark figures

25: Suffers from

26: Garments worn by the Ganges

27: Overused, as a phrase

28: Send, as to a specialist

29: Drainpipe bend

30: Shaped with an ax

32: Lead to

33: Tommyrot

34: Rose oil

37: Upgrade the decor

40: Dubai and Abu Dhabi

42: Tears

45: Attend

47: He has his pride

50: Corn product

52: Like Miss Congeniality

55: Mountain lion

56: Uptight, slangily

57: State tree of Maine

59: Selfsame

60: Capping

61: Bowling alley

62: Cod relative

63: At all

64: Stitched





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