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Daily Crossword Puzzle #8 for Wed, May 14, 2014

ACROSS
1. Chief or king in Benin or Nigeria
4. Slanted text style (abbr.)
8. Lightbulb-shaped fruit
12. Having a low temperature
14. Nothings
16. Legendary monster
17. Inside; within (prefix)
18. Pleas
20. Rep
22. Followers of ems
23. Fast jet (abbr.)
24. And not
25. Director Reiner
28. HTML Container Element
30. Unit of force
31. Ransack; plunder; pillage
35. Purpose
37. 90 degrees
40. Calm and collected
41. Caspian sea tributary
42. Make a splashing sound
44. Utensil
45. Indian skirt
46. Son of Isaac
47. Baseball player Mel
48. Suffix with ecto or cyto
50. Letter starter
52. Make lace
54. Begley and Asner
55. Compass dir.
58. RI univ.
61. Friend of Pooh
63. Moving about
65. Wine waiters
70. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
71. Dad
72. Take place subsequently
73. Sliced desserts
74. Stricken, poetically
75. Peachy ____!
76. Pacific Standard Time (abbr.)

DOWN
1. Sea
2. Beat drum
3. Tree or shrub in the Birch family
4. Ending with capital
5. Nine, plus one
6. Nonscientific branch of learning
7. Old wives' tales, e.g.
8. Cooking vessel
9. Armor plate that protects the chest
10. Ancient Greek god of war
11. Respite
13. Spanish title
15. Post
19. SW Saudi Arabia district
21. Attempt
26. Singles
27. Memphis, Tenn. Street
29. Winning man's name
30. Stop
32. Pick up the tab
33. Plunder
34. Pipe bend
35. Mountain range
36. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
38. Distress signal
39. Sadhe (variant)
41. Cleo's killer
43. Became colored
49. Female horse
51. White ___ sheet
53. Lacquered or enameled metalware
55. Empty completely
56. Locates
57. Take or capture by force
58. United States Postal Service (abbr.)
59. Wander aimlessly
60. Body of Kaffir warriors
62. Pig sound
64. Plant excrement
66. Floor protector
67. Compass dir.
68. Sorrow
69. Elected rep.