Crossword for Tue, 2/Jan/2018

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Across
1: Kind of hammer

5: Provides weapons to

9: Not sleeping

14: 'Aquarius' musical

15: Quiet spot

16: Lips, in Latin

17: Murmur

19: Prepared to propose

20: Artist's plaster

21: Kind of woodpecker

23: Fancy affairs

24: Go over

26: Like any number finishing with '9'

28: Appraises anew

34: Screen-measuring unit

38: Van Gogh's love offering

39: Tell Mom

40: Apt rhyme for 'dale'

41: Matter makers

43: Free

44: An expectant father, e.g.

45: In-box item

46: Ravel work

48: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

49: Go postal

50: Hospital staff cuts?

52: Vichy water

54: Chess piece

55: Undercover worker

58: Movie greats

62: IHOP order, often

66: Illicitly distilled liquor

68: Causing giggles

70: Quarrel

71: Strong cotton

72: Extended family

73: Picks up some waves?

74: 'I'm better than you' sort

75: Copy editor's bane

Down
1: Drink down

2: Bowling alley

3: They might be visual

4: Twists to pull free

5: Aardvark's tidbit

6: Crucifix

7: Hi-fi description

8: Place at an angle

9: Resin in adhesives and paints

10: Lurid

11: All tucked in

12: Drug unit

13: Bolts down

18: Parrot perches

22: Narrow margin of victory

25: Soup veggie

27: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

28: Lots of paper

29: Word with worm or moth

30: Appetite stimulant

31: Barbershop band?

32: Gate alternative

33: Adjective for some statesmen

35: Chip variety

36: Jerk partner

37: Buffalo bunches

42: Gloomy Gus

44: Fertilizer compound

46: Boxing match

47: St. Louis gridder

51: Whole

53: Hearth heap

55: Former Iranian ruler

56: Breathing space

57: Meditation method

59: Crescent-shaped mountain range

60: Parade spoiler

61: Akebono's sport

63: In a competent way

64: Abrupt bit of thunder

65: Numbers game

67: Varlet

69: Debatable gift





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