Crossword for Thu, 31/Dec/2015

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Across
1: Hot tubs

5: Crescent-shaped mountain range

9: Flower sites

13: Religious splinter group

14: Antitoxins

15: Christmas song

16: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

17: Observed

18: Combat site

19: Left orbit

21: Impudent

22: Email info

23: They’re often out on a limb

25: Had a bite

27: Experienced again

31: Snapple selections

35: Picked up a lap

37: Peter of Chicago

38: Extended and dramatic narratives

40: Dance like Hines

42: Condescend

43: Fizzify

45: Ancient mariner

47: Trudge, as through sludge

48: Make like new

50: Red or Yellow

52: Head lock

54: Built before shipped

59: Japanese-American group

62: Carol's kings, e.g.

64: Be taken with

65: Many millennia

66: Test choice

67: Fish sticks?

68: Nursing need

69: Right, on the map

70: Kane's dying thought

71: Budgets make them meet

72: Deli loaves
Down
1: Old badges of honor

2: Dish made using a blender, often

3: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

4: Easel, e.g.

5: States confidently

6: Dirty look

7: Admire oneself

8: Carpentry tool

9: Lice and the like

10: Hematite and galena

11: A whole lot

12: Delight, as a comedy club crowd

15: Moved to protect the king

20: Afternoon brew

24: Brief time, briefly

26: Feed one's face

28: Hide

29: Thus

30: 'Rats!'

31: Duct product

32: Olympic weapon

33: Ditties

34: Dispersed

36: Feline, to Tweety

39: Narratives

41: Faux follower

44: Palindromic preposition

46: Prepares for judgment day, in a way

49: Manor

51: 'You ___ here'

53: Metallic quality

55: Any acetate, chemically

56: Sudden attack

57: Tickle pink

58: Borscht veggies

59: Siestas

60: Object of pagan worship

61: Pump part

63: Word in seven Hope titles




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