Crossword for Wed, 30/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Knocks for a loop

5: Padrone

9: Feel compassion

13: Post-Mardi Gras period

14: Free from restraint

16: Turn to gas

17: Conjurer

18: Tunes for two

19: Slinky material

20: Game trap

22: Car safety devices

24: Biting midge

26: Admire oneself

27: Rent collector

29: Pairs of radical citizens smother bigotry (6)

33: Highlander's cap

34: Coal haulers

37: Musical speeds

38: Kind of column

40: Chamber pieces

42: Gyrate

43: Crowning glories, of a sort

45: Exchange high-fives, e.g.

47: Mardi Gras luminary

48: Resentful

50: Analyzes grammatically

52: Supporting bracket

55: Little ones

56: Snow fall?

60: Natterjacks, e.g.

63: Agree

64: Pun reaction, perhaps

66: Pat oneself on the back verbally

67: State peremptorily

68: Prefix for motor or control

69: Fuzzy fruit

70: Snitches

71: Exemplar of rapid growth

72: Musical feature
Down
1: Help for the hapless

2: Make less dependent

3: Betrothal

4: Boat backs

5: Begin blooming

6: Responsibility

7: Quite high

8: Indian lute

9: Report card notation

10: Ignition ___

11: Dagger handle

12: Wapiti

15: Any acetate, chemically

21: Right, on the map

23: Lick

25: Libel, for instance

27: Island near Molokai

28: Exceptional

30: Stager

31: Double agents

32: Flirty girl

33: Mausoleum

35: Fight, with 'it up'

36: Where to see the alphabet float

39: Pioneers, often

41: Trellis piece

44: Antitoxins

46: Harness race pace

49: Hierarchy levels

51: Equities

53: 'The Turn of the ___'

54: Place for a summer home

56: Nearly closed

57: '___ Zapata!'

58: Assist larcenously

59: Roof rim

61: Break, shake or take follower

62: Toss back

65: Silent sayso




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