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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Wed, Feb 20, 2013

ACROSS
1. Island
4. Slanted text style (abbr.)
8. Anneal
12. Enthusiasm
14. Nothings
16. Celtic language
17. Old wives' tales, e.g.
18. Pleas
20. Type of eclipse
22. And so on (abbr.)
23. Erode
24. Begley and Asner
25. Part of HMS, perhaps
28. "We ___ not amused" (Victoria)
30. A blast of a horn
31. First name in cosmetics
35. Compass dir.
37. Characteristic smell of wine
40. Root beer relative
41. Inky black, to poets
42. Splash clumsily
44. Came down and settled, as after flight
45. Texas town _ City
46. Son of Isaac
47. Portuguese money of account (variant)
48. Contemptuous expression
50. Seaweed
52. Lair
54. Binary compound
55. Eastern Standard Time (abbr.)
58. Chewing product
61. Not either
63. A sleeping potion; an opiate (poet.)
65. Appease
70. Play the lead
71. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
72. Ingested
73. Soaks
74. Downhill vehicle
75. Grant temporary use of
76. Born

DOWN
1. Cell (Danish)
2. Verbally
3. Tall tales
4. Ending with capital
5. Nine, plus one
6. Nonscientific branch of learning
7. Old wives' tales, e.g.
8. Fish or hair follower
9. One of the Great Lakes
10. At sea
11. For fear that
13. Teachers' org.
15. Stalk of a moss capsule
19. 1/640 square mile
21. 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
26. Charged particles
27. Fur scarf
29. Fortification
30. Watched over
32. Lacquered or enameled metalware
33. Writer Wiesel
34. Ingest
35. Inky black, to poets
36. Thickened enlargement
38. Distress signal
39. 1973 Nobel Price Winner (Physics) Leo
41. Begley and Asner
43. Became colored
49. Painter Guido (1575-1642)
51. Directed
53. Short letter
55. Ingested
56. Schedule
57. Laconic
58. Global Positioning Systems (abbr.)
59. Mountain range
60. Greater amount
62. Monetary unit of Yemen
64. Compass dir.
66. Writing tablet
67. Had dinner
68. "___ Little Indians"
69. Conclusion