Crossword for Sat, 26/Dec/2015

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Across
1: Cocktail hour spread

5: Attire

9: Grad

13: Very familiar with

14: Fasten, as a ship's rope

15: Swamplike

16: Hit with hailstones

17: Free from restraint

18: Crooked

19: Vocal expression since year one?

21: Wintry mess

22: Assesses the value of

23: Browning of pages of verse, for example

24: Portal

27: Taste and smell

29: Thin soup

30: Markers

32: Apprehend

34: Like a rickey

35: Whiskey cocktails

36: Mr. Peanut accessory

37: 'Sure thing'

38: Strawberry measures

39: Haut ___ (high society)

40: It doesn't happen often

42: Joan of Arc, for one

43: Shoddy clothing

44: Rub and rub and rub

46: Animal stomachs

48: Lawyer wannabe, maybe

52: Yokel

53: 13 witches

54: Make healthy again

55: Misfortunes

56: Juicy plants

57: Test choice

58: Sugar source

59: Microsoft product

60: Addition problems

Down
1: Cocoon's contents

2: Mocked by imitating

3: Related

4: Gamut

5: Spirit in a bottle

6: Choir members

7: Parade spoiler

8: Tournament exemption

9: Strolls leisurely

10: Officer

11: Java vessels

12: Legend

14: Joke targets

20: Johnny with a guitar

21: Juniors, usually

23: Spot and Fido

24: In a competent way

25: Announcer of yore

26: Equivalent

27: Business letter addressees

28: Like the beach

30: Rabbit fur

31: Crude abode

33: Ballpark beverage

35: Gains a lap

36: Rectifies

38: Sty list?

39: Injure badly

41: Least refined

42: Plaintive sounds

44: Relish

45: Church doctrine

46: Den of thieves

47: Have the final say

48: Game on horseback

49: Wise guy?

50: Jack-in-the-pulpit

51: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

53: Crow's cry





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