Crossword for Mon, 26/Dec/2016

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Across
1: Coping device

4: Took to the air

8: Yawn-provoking

12: Hard or soft addition

13: Became threadbare

14: Teamsters, for one

16: Artifice

17: Mend socks

18: Hardly a brainiac

19: Battery terminal

21: Docs for doggies

23: Supply grub to

24: Spider in the kitchen

25: Ran in the wash

27: Emolument

29: Geishas' sashes

30: Attack word

31: Electrical unit

34: Place for lounging

37: Paronomastic collection

38: Opposite of paleo-

39: Oates partner

40: Watch chain

41: PETA anathemas

42: Feel unwell

43: Got out of Dodge

45: Tries to tag, maybe

47: Veneer layer

48: Backboard attachment

49: Ring-tailed critter

50: Place for P.E.

51: French film

52: Zip

55: Prom escort

58: Breakfast grain

60: Wall Street commodity

62: Terminating

64: Listen to

66: Bug-eyed

67: Television and radio

68: Buddhist leader

69: Creatures of habit?

70: Batik worker

71: Criticism

72: Pivotal
Down
1: Where to find a sweater

2: Match play?

3: Exemplar of rapid growth

4: Basketball position (abbr.)

5: They're served with fishes in Matthew

6: Proved to be human

7: Departed

8: Touch on the shoulders with a sword

9: Bring together

10: Margarita flavoring

11: Earring spot

12: Envelop

15: Silent sayso

20: Reduces in intensity

22: Gyrate

26: A white one is small

28: Rm. coolers

29: Coat of many colors?

30: Temp

31: Responsibility

32: Roll call response

33: Rolling stone's lack, proverbially

34: Bloke

35: Call a cab

36: Friend

37: School of whales

40: Not masc.

41: Idol worshiper

43: Small one

44: Tree branch

45: Debate side

46: Thin-bladed tools

49: Word at a multiplex

50: Spirit in a bottle

51: Plotters, possibly

52: Nebulous

53: 'The Gift of the Magi' device

54: Computer capacity, for short

55: Block up

56: Fired

57: Neat as a pin

59: Deep-massage developer

61: Amount of hair

63: Long-nosed fish

65: Jabber




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