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So your spouse thinks your shack could be a bit more organized? You tracked in mud after going outside and checking the antennas? Maybe the table manners you exhibit could be improved--but there was DX on the bands! Time for a quiz focusing on the amateur’s friend and animal familiar--the pig! You must be a ham, since you’re acting like one!

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1. This part of a pig is brushworthy
9. Live outside temporarily
13. Loosen a knot
14. Of the sun
16. Scary sound
17. IC whose leads lay flat on the PCB (abbr)
18. Plate current (abbr)
20. Charlotte's friend
21. Young pig
26. CW evening signoff
27. How meat is prepared for 58 Across
31. Pig sniffer
34. CW abbreviation for 'that'
35. Shallow digging for food
37. More than 1000 volts (abbr)
38. The curly part of a pig
39. Half of what makes a new line (abbr)
40. Contented pig sound
42. Pig's teeth
44. Synonym for runt
46. Hear .., Hear ..
48. What happens if you get caught cheating in the contest
49. Province that uses VE6 (postal code)
50. Where pigs grow
52. Battery energy units
54. Gets booed at the ball game
56. Before AD
57. Add M or A to get an elevation with respect to sea level
58. Don't watch this or politics being made
59. Colors
60. Registration mark (abbr)
61. Same as the mean
63. Cut common for both pork and lamb
64. Person from Oklahoma
66. Kitchen scraps fed to pigs
67. Large electrical manufacturer
69. Mistake
70. Propagation across the equator (abbr)
71. Our continent (abbr)
72. Meat baked in a pot
73. Where 72 Across is usually cooked

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2. Rear end of a pig
3. Deep blue
4. State that's home to Mt Rushmore
5. Work
6. VHF propagation via patches in the lower ionosphere (abbr)
7. Mother pig
8. Uncooked
10. Dear advice columnist
11. Written agreement (abbr)
12. Pig meat
15. Popular barbeque cut
19. A square one won't go in a round hole
22. Free software mascot
23. Pigs feet
24. Reputation of a pig
25. Queried
28. Logic family between RTL and TTL
29. Deceptive transaction
30. Pig's leg
32. Home of the Great Basin (postal code)
33. What pigs sniff out
36. Prefix of RadioShack computer
40. Ragchew
41. Roger Roger (abbr)
43. Agitated pig sound
45. Easiest DX award (abbr)
47. Part of the sky dawn first brightens
51. Where the little pig went
53. Sliced for sandwiches
55. Where pigs live
56. Breakfast pig
57. More than ultra
59. Another name for a pig
62. Make a political choice
65. Light waves used by remote control (abbr)
66. If there aren't enough chairs (abbr)
68. Multiply to get W

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