Crossword for Sun, 27/Dec/2015

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Across
1: Uploading initials

4: Sailor, in slang

7: Malt liquor yeast

11: Bad driver's shout

12: Take to a higher power

13: Pea pest

15: Elgar's 'The Apostles' and 'The Kingdom'

17: Intoxicating

18: Magna ___ laude

19: Adjusts, as a trip counter

21: Chart shape

22: Troublemaker

23: Turns to the right

24: 'Rock and Roll All Nite' band

27: Shortchange

28: Side arm

30: Uncertain

33: Soft seat

36: __ operandi

38: Film follower

39: Hardly hale

40: Copter's cousin

41: Measure of purity

43: Hunk

45: Repulsive

46: Brass and bronze

48: Electrify

50: Seductive

51: Speck of dust

53: Shade tree

56: Aardvark's tidbit

58: Time for an early lunch

60: ___ culpa

61: Prisons, slangily

64: Cookie-cutter

66: ___ firma

67: Spruce cousins

68: Where Barry Bonds plays, briefly

69: Cause of a bad air day

70: Feed one's face

71: Pivotal

Down
1: Internet meeting site

2: Lady's companion

3: Furry friend

4: Assumed appearance

5: Reed instruments

6: Gold medal-winning

7: Scrooge's exclamation

8: Musclebound brute

9: Overjoyed

10: Dress design

11: Central points

12: Losers

14: Stain, as a fabric

16: Bacchanalian blast

20: Biathlon need

25: Mao follower?

26: Cheap cigar

27: Move in circles

28: Date source

29: Hide in the shadows

30: Cartridge contents

31: Pillow filler

32: Outburst of controversy

34: Keeps from squeaking

35: Winter ailment

37: Szechuan sauce source

42: Levy

44: Chalice mates

47: Old soap ingredient

49: Departed

51: Television and radio

52: Exposed

53: Show host

54: Like collard greens or spinach

55: Ale ingredient

56: It may be passed on the Hill

57: Some votes

59: Limb's partner

62: Old hand

63: Droop

65: Family





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