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Daily Crossword Puzzle #1 for Tue, Dec 8, 2015

ACROSS
1. Consume
4. Lyric poems
8. 1/640 square mile
12. Seize upon or latch onto something
14. Court order
15. Calm and collected
16. Capri or Wright
17. Pieces
20. Exchanged or delivered for money
21. Neckwear
22. Enemy
23. Gospel singer Marvin
27. Den
29. Writer of Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
31. Hero or heavy, e.g.
34. Biscuitlike quick bread
35. Washington bills
36. Raze (variant)
39. The first octave above the treble staff
41. Nuclear Threat Initiatives
42. Singer James
43. Shoestrings
46. Merit
47. Spoken
48. "____ silly question..."
51. Constellation of myth
54. Tate display
56. One (Scot)
58. Compact _
61. Producing rotation
66. Tenth: prefix
67. Inky black, to poets
68. One of the Great Lakes
69. Go away!
70. Post
71. Plant excrements
72. Compass dir.

DOWN
1. Armor plate that protects the chest
2. In addition
3. For Whom the Bell _____
4. The grampus (Milton)
5. Superhero pair
6. Shade tree
7. Back-to-school mo.
8. Adept person
9. Meet
10. Printing process, for short
11. Otherwise
13. Ancient Persian
18. Petroleum
19. Teachers' org.
24. Curve
25. "Barney Miller" actor Jack
26. Inactive volcano in Sicily
28. Removes the wrinkles
30. Phone greeting
32. Luau accessory
33. Double-curved letter
34. Actors Connery and Penn
36. To riddle
37. "One Day ___ Time"
38. Ski resort town in Vermont
40. Edible starchy tuberous root
44. Auto
45. Biblical high priest
49. Krazy ___ of comics
50. Black tropical American cuckoo
52. Probability
53. Sibling's daughter
54. Ancient Greek god of war
55. Loose flowing garment
57. Nights before holidays
59. Glance over
60. Quote
62. Plus
63. Period
64. Mouth edge
65. Consenting reply