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Daily Crossword Puzzle #1 for Thu, Aug 29, 2013

ACROSS
1. Police officer (slang)
4. First of billions?
8. Wig
12. Caspian sea tributary
14. Literary convention
16. River in Europe
17. Nathan's nickname
18. Pleas
20. Guide
22. Snakelike fish
23. Compass dir.
24. "___ Little Indians"
25. A female animal or person
28. Small drink
30. The longest river in Central Asia
31. _____ steamer (cargo ship)
35. Third mo.
37. Inactive volcano in Sicily
40. Mouths or openings
41. Light colored
42. Debunk (Brit. slang)
44. A home for chicks
45. Taken by mouth
46. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
47. Make lace
48. Tarsus (plural)
50. "Beetle Bailey" pooch
52. Double-curved letter
54. Teachers' org.
55. Floor covering
58. White ___ sheet
61. Fish or hair follower
63. A sleeping potion; an opiate (poet.)
65. Act in opposition
70. Play the lead
71. Hero or heavy, e.g.
72. Type of eclipse
73. Moistens
74. Inside; within (prefix)
75. Suggestive of the supernatural
76. Portuguese money of account (variant)

DOWN
1. 2nd pers. sing. pres. of can (arch.)
2. Declaim
3. Eucharist need
4. Had dinner
5. Spanish title
6. Fitting
7. Greater amount
8. Small child
9. Singer Brickell
10. Adolescent
11. Celtic language
13. Observe
15. Observes
19. Set down
21. Acura sports coupe
26. Took on color
27. _____ Park, CO
29. Right away
30. Threatening words
32. Type of rug
33. Vertical spar for supporting sails
34. Pacific Standard Time (abbr.)
35. Hindu Mythology: god of death
36. Having or resembling wings
38. Basketball assoc.
39. Composer Copland
41. Cooking vessel
43. Yard entry
49. Is not
51. Bit
53. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons
55. Mother
56. Having winglike extensions
57. Laconic
58. 43,560 square feet
59. Within a short period
60. Old (Scot.)
62. Loyal
64. Compass dir.
66. Modern: prefix
67. A saturated hydrocarbon
68. Automobile
69. Attempt