Crossword for Wed, 20/Dec/2017

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Across
1: Hole punch

4: Sandbox plaything

8: Bawd

13: Contend

14: Tenor or alto

15: Maui greeting

16: Outer skin layer

18: Massless subatomic particle believed to bind quarks together

19: Upshot

20: Show partiality

22: Tournament exemption

23: Enlighten

25: Sailing vessel

27: Break up

30: Fixes one's laces

32: Write-off

33: Roid or road follower

35: 'Come on in'

37: Surgery sites, briefly

38: Roman supreme councils

40: In the past

41: Plant problem

43: Printer's ink color

44: After-school group

45: Hams it up

47: Amounts consumed

49: Turn to gas

50: Ancestry

51: Unit of oil production, briefly

53: ___ mater

55: Word game with dice

59: Bounded

61: Still the same

63: Fish tank plant life

64: Biblical weeds

65: Some gametes

66: Glorify

67: Wapiti

68: Place for P.E.

Down
1: State peremptorily

2: Film-editing effect

3: Island souvenirs

4: Curtain in a doorway

5: Point, as a rifle

6: Without warmth

7: Add-on for Congo

8: Captains of industry, e.g.

9: For ___ the marbles

10: Gibberish!

11: Sailor's greeting

12: Lion's pride

14: South African plain

17: Tunes for two

21: Bluto's assent

24: They were once in every store in France

26: Get five in a row, in bingo

27: Fruit for flavoring gin

28: Huge swarm

29: Gathering

30: Sell to the public

31: Smooth transition

34: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese

36: Pulls a heist

38: Fills to excess

39: Dignifies

42: It's heard in a herd

44: Mooch

46: Building wing

48: Babe

50: Old hat

51: Spill the beans

52: Telephony pioneer

54: Remote possibility?

56: Rum drink

57: Impose, as a tax

58: Cheese with a red coat

60: Faux follower

62: First zoo?





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