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Daily Crossword Puzzle #1 for Sat, Aug 23, 2014

ACROSS
1. Beverage made from leaves
4. Wrote a lyric poem
8. Jennifer or Joel
12. Curve
13. Suttee (variant)
14. Assistant
15. Old wives' tales, e.g.
17. Single time
18. Therefore, facetiously
19. Proofreads
21. Crowd into
23. Electrical Unit
24. Ferber et al.
26. Non-commissioned officer (abbr.)
28. Tenement units (abbr.)
30. French poetic form
34. Fast jet (abbr.)
37. Sign of something about to happen
39. Russian ruler of old
40. Santa ___, CA
41. Composer Copland
43. Sodium hydroxide
44. Travel on an animal
46. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
47. Curvy letter
48. NE Massachusetts town
51. Not kosher
54. Compass dir.
55. Bodily heat indicating an inflammation
58. Teachers' org.
61. Coat; cloak
63. The easternmost of the Lesser Sundas
65. Off limits
67. Desk light
71. Periodic rise and fall of the sea level
72. Austrian river, tributary to the Danube
73. Nights before holidays
74. Nine, plus one
75. Stalk of a moss capsule
76. Remaining after all deductions
77. "Barney Miller" actor Jack

DOWN
1. Story
2. Eat (away)
3. Bitter
4. Bear (Spanish)
5. One of the 12 tribes of Israel
6. And so on (abbr.)
7. South Vietnam president (1954)
8. Slender fish
9. Capital of Latvia
10. Dutch treat
11. Sharp bark
16. Inactive volcano in Sicily
18. Lettered men learn these first
20. Plant excrement
22. Single
25. Portico
27. Baseball player Mel
29. Box-office sellout
30. Derisive sound
31. Small island
32. Negative votes
33. Ancient Greek god of war
34. Indian skirt
35. Sever or remove by pinching or nipping
36. Small boys
38. Epoch
42. Drug cop
45. She-sheep
49. To the inside or interior of
50. Corporate head (abbr.)
52. Erode
53. Secret move to avoid paying debts
56. Leaves out
57. Cowboy competition
58. Nuclear Threat Initiatives
59. Comfort
60. Blind as ____
62. Small, secluded valley
64. Former U.S. Attorney General Janet
66. Mouth or opening
68. "___ Maria"
69. Was introduced to
70. Pacific Standard Time (abbr.)