Crossword for Tue, 4/Dec/2012

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Across
1: Brake neighbor

4: Rational

8: Dennis the Menace's dog

12: '___ is life!'

13: Football's contour

14: Render harmless

16: Tropical root

17: Slave away

18: Obsolete repro

19: Squadrons

21: Winged stinger

23: Overflow

24: Silent sayso

25: Broke ground, perhaps

27: Had a bite

29: Line

30: Life story, for short

31: It may be passed on the Hill

34: Gives a line of reasoning

37: Took charge of the karaoke machine

38: Pigeon patter

39: Marginally sufficient

40: Otherwise

41: Glitch

42: ___ culpa

43: Memory morsel

45: Three ___ to the wind (plastered)

47: Like any number finishing with '9'

48: Deviation at sea

49: Surly look

50: Stitch up

51: Type type

52: Tango maneuver

55: Proof of pmt.

58: Tiff

60: Steeple top

62: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

64: Card pack foursome

66: In the near future

67: Spirit in a bottle

68: Patronize a fine restaurant

69: On cloud nine

70: Departed

71: Words with precedent

72: 'Don't give up!'
Down
1: Rich fertilizer

2: Caustic

3: Whiskey measure

4: Barfly

5: Sworn

6: Water sprite

7: Silly pair?

8: Coke's partner, at the bar

9: Come together

10: Fortune companion

11: On the house

12: Amaze

15: May celebrant

20: Loafer, for instance

22: Annoyance

26: Surgery sites, briefly

28: Dress fancily, with 'out'

29: Stick on a table

30: Take one's cuts

31: Clearasil target

32: Joseph had one of many colors

33: Dresses nattily, with 'up'

34: BB's and bullets

35: Woodwind requirement

36: Diploma holder

37: Take to court

40: Incidentally, in Netspeak

41: Go down

43: Tournament exemption

44: Course deviations

45: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

46: Crude living quarters

49: Powerful

50: Oktoberfest souvenir

51: Prima ___

52: Hash house

53: 'The Gift of the Magi' device

54: Cooped (up)

55: Tease mercilessly

56: Ball of yarn

57: State tree of Maine

59: Hippies' homes

61: Days gone by

63: Court divider

65: Red or Yellow




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