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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Fri, Jan 8, 2016

ACROSS
1. A type of plum
5. Nights before holidays
9. Be seated
12. Pig sounds
14. Old wives' tales, e.g.
15. 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
16. Tree or shrub in the Birch family
17. Medicinal plant
18. Plus
19. Friend of Pooh
20. Pressed
23. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
24. SW Saudi Arabia district
25. Extremities
27. One who makes use of a thing
30. Was introduced to
32. Male parent
33. Torque (variant)
34. Kill
36. Girls' org. (abbr.)
38. Curvy letter
39. Compass dir.
40. Allow
43. Raised railways
46. Inactive volcano in Sicily
48. Domed church section
49. "One Day ___ Time"
51. And so on (abbr.)
52. At sea
53. Thailand, formerly
54. Length times width
56. Ache
58. Went by
61. Krazy ___ of comics
64. The first octave above the treble staff
65. French philosopher Descartes
66. Parts of speech
68. Whopper
69. Part of Q.E.F.
70. Sports stadium
71. Mountains (abbr.)
72. Snakelike fish
73. "Mermaids" star

DOWN
1. Fly high
2. _ and Stitch
3. Southwest Nigerian state
4. Supplement with great effort
5. Liveliness
6. Grand slam
7. Eaten away
8. Observe
9. Practice fights
10. Is not
11. Event that recurs at intervals
13. Indian titles of respect
21. Basketball hoops
22. Threatening words
23. Sums up
24. Curve
26. Tired old horse
27. Shoshoni
28. Distress signal
29. Celtic language
31. Clothes sense
35. Gossips
37. High mountains
41. Compass dir.
42. Afternoon social gathering
44. (Had) reclined
45. R.R. building
47. 43,560 square feet
48. Auto club (abbr.)
50. Electrical Unit
53. Settings
55. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ferber
56. Inside of hand
57. Set down
59. Of or related to the anus
60. Puts into a specified state
61. Malaysian steamed pastry
62. Queen of England 1702-14
63. Russian ruler of old
65. To separate or throw off
67. The grampus (Milton)