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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Fri, Dec 20, 2013

ACROSS
1. Leather borer
4. Flintstone garb
8. At sea
12. Expressions of contempt or scorn
14. Genesis locale
15. Pull apart
16. Riding implement
17. Unrelated to defense, as in spending
20. Bristle
21. Rowing implement
22. _ moment's notice (2 wds.)
23. Derisive sound
27. A blast of a horn
29. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
31. Be footloose
34. Drinks excessively
35. Roberta Peters solo
36. Singer Brickell
39. Double-curved letter
41. Russian ruler of old
42. Nanny
43. Place in a line
46. Engineer (abbr.)
47. Create
48. Son of Isaac
51. Memphis, Tenn. Street
54. Raised railways
56. Adept person
58. Angers
61. Happening in regular succession
66. Calm and collected
67. An important port of Yemen
68. Writer Wiesel
69. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ferber
70. Event that recurs at intervals
71. Cuts off
72. Eastern Standard Time (abbr.)

DOWN
1. Lettered men learn these first
2. Had on
3. Plunders
4. Layer
5. Wedding promise
6. Lair
7. Inside; within (prefix)
8. Had dinner
9. Elected representatives
10. 90 degrees
11. Length times width
13. Connect, as a bridge
18. Ingest
19. Back
24. Bear (Spanish)
25. Hit sharply and swiftly
26. Woody plant
28. Declaim
30. Indian state
32. By way of
33. Hearing organ
34. Pulls into pieces
36. Compass dir.
37. One of the 12 tribes of Israel
38. Eaten
40. Broad, flat, thick piece
44. Mamie's mate
45. Teachers' org.
49. Fitting
50. RI univ.
52. Louse (plural)
53. Wear away
54. Part of Q.E.F.
55. Farming town in central California
57. Baking chamber
59. Immeasurably long periods of time
60. Narrow board
62. One (Scot)
63. Biblical high priest
64. Mouth edge
65. Consenting reply