Across

1. Mashed or sweet follower
4. Particular bird
9. Radium symbol
10. Purchase order, shortened
11. Large
12. Workplace for 24 across
13. Speed initials
17. Dressing
19. Associate of Arts, for short
20. Fruits and vegetables
23. Pistachio, for one
24. (see 12 across)
25. Columnist Barrett
26. Kitchen position
29. Beginning for coffee or pudding
30. Type of mop
31. Ending for law or saw
32. Whirlpool
34. Iridium symbol
36. Talk turkey
38. Fro partner
39. Nevada city
40. IX minus V
41. “Mother ___ I?”
43. Beginning for pen
45. Certain ham
47. Entryway item
48. Spring mo.
49. Relative of com or edu
51. Short for high school
52. Deep dish _____ pie
54. Smooch
56. Krypton symbol
58. Day after Thanksgiving fare
61. So. Cal. college
64. Not in
66. Den
67. A time for _______ and family
72. They’re wrapped and put in the fridge
73. Margarine cousin

Down

1. Thanksgiving pie
2. Either partner
3. Comfort
4. Meat substitute
5. Baseball stat
6. Relative
7. Yule time drink
8. Certain sauce
10. “No ___ intended”
12. Listening device?
14. Public relations, shortened
15. Start for d’oeuvres
16. Casserole ingredient
18. Yd. increment
21. Nickname for Dorothy
22. Preserving in sealed jars
26. Rooster topper
27. Atop
28. Entry need
30. Certain appliance
32. Type of opera
33. Cell or mort trailer
35. Dinner follower or Royce beginning
36. Muscular pouch removed from
the turkey
37. Spoon for 50 down
38. What are you ________ for?
41. Harvest follower
42. The A in ETA
44. Cons opposite
46. Chip accompaniment
50. It goes with mashed potatoes
51. Emcee, perhaps
53. (see 71 down)
55. Neck wrap
56. Carving requirement
57. Famine opposite
59. Particular rocks
60. Opposite NE
62. Short for calorie or calendar
63. Fabricate
65. High card
68. Train sys.
69. Exists
70. Symbol for niobium
71. (with 53 down) Fond __ ___, Wisconsin

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