Crossword for Wed, 4/Jan/2012

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Across
1: Lowlife

4: Very little bit

8: Where oysters grow

12: Akebono's sport

13: 'No problem!'

14: Showed a show again

16: Harness race pace

17: Margarita flavoring

18: Kicking partner

19: Tune

20: Ebay posting

21: Attack word

23: 'Treasure Island' pirate

24: Strapping

26: Came across

28: Out of work? (abbr.)

30: Fare for the toothless

32: Help for the hapless

36: Fully employed

39: Sigh of relief

41: Mukluk, e.g.

42: Utterance of revulsion

43: Like Cheerios

45: Constricting snake

46: Didn't come home standing up

48: Bridle path excursion

49: Pioneering video game

50: Copy editor's bane

51: Obtain

52: Haunting sound

54: Original sinner

56: Thin streaks of smoke

60: Secretary's stat

63: Chimpanzee's hoot

65: Bon or won follower

67: Excessively

68: Blow a fuse, say

70: Water color

72: 'Far out!'

73: Contradict

74: Happy cat's sound

75: Cargo compartment

76: Deep desires

77: Greed and gluttony

78: Passports, e.g (abbr.)
Down
1: First two-time, and first female, Nobelist

2: Love, Italian style

3: Morse code component

4: Home of heroes?

5: Midnight trip to the fridge

6: Mao follower?

7: Tournament advantages

8: Uncomfortable neckwear

9: Slim swimmer

10: Kind of coffee

11: Conserve

12: Thrusting blow

15: Just released

20: Tournament exemption

22: Troublemaker

25: Small one

27: Check

29: Slam dunk point count

30: It meant little to de Gaulle

31: Overwhelmed

33: Gray wolf

34: Night light

35: Kind of beetle

36: Failure

37: Really hard on the eyes

38: Use UPS

40: Fabled race loser

44: Lincoln loc.

47: She's a deer

49: Polynesian paste

51: Metro maker

53: Have stuff

55: Primary goal?

57: Symbolized, with 'for'

58: Forms a puddle

59: Listened to the bears

60: Where to find a browser

61: Mouse, to an owl

62: Symbol of stubbornness

64: Chance occurrences

65: Chance to play

66: Galley propellers

69: Seamstress's sticker

71: On the ___ vive

72: McBride of 'Boston Public'




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