Crossword for Sat, 27/Feb/2016

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Across
1: Where oysters grow

5: Bug-eyed

9: Help for the hapless

13: Stage direction

14: Allied

16: Eeyore's friend

17: Tropical root

18: Apt

19: Cocoon's contents

20: Offensive smile

22: Set off

24: Lady's man

26: Official stickers

27: Neatened

29: Firesign Theatre skit, e.g.

33: Bounce up and down

34: Takes a tumble, at times

37: Russian villa

38: Feels poorly

40: Financial resources

42: Golf ball pegs

43: Intestinal

45: Double agents

47: Cargo compartment

48: Rent collector

50: We wouldn't have givers without them

52: Muddle

55: 'I'll catch it!'

56: Helper

60: Improvises like Ella

63: Write up

64: Show host

66: Gumbo vegetable

67: Roman date

68: Prego competitor

69: Curb

70: Pt. of USDA

71: Proofreader's mark

72: Units of work
Down
1: Uses a bookie

2: Course climax

3: Airships

4: In the garage, maybe

5: Pharaohs' symbol of power

6: Surround

7: Tabu emissions

8: Spirit in a bottle

9: Hunger trigger

10: Look sullen

11: Gloomy Gus

12: Roe source

15: 'Ballet Rehearsal' artist

21: Make a sweater, perhaps

23: Tickled pink

25: Limited time

27: Linen fabric

28: Runs out of gas

30: Vessel for Arctic conditions

31: Ostrich look-alikes

32: 'No problem!'

33: Get-out-of-jail money

35: Fare for the toothless

36: Blue funk

39: Most impudent

41: Junction

44: Jailbirds

46: Goes downhill fast?

49: Appraiser

51: Extra performance

53: Well-known

54: Title for Sam of government

56: LSD, informally

57: Fries, often

58: Blended-family prefix

59: Dark greenish blue

61: Math subj.

62: Lacking, along the Loire

65: Devon river




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