Crossword for Tue, 21/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Pas de deux conclusion

5: Magician's prop

9: Follower of Mary

13: Analogous

14: Love, Italian style

16: Burn soother

17: Firecracker sound

18: Paris, to Romeo

19: Porn

20: Church group

22: Record collections?

24: Remove graphite or graffiti

26: Harbor helper

27: Rock layers

29: Always existing

33: Auction offering

34: Fish tank plant life

36: Lowest point

38: Kind of acid

40: Source of light

42: Akebono's sport

43: Breaks, in a way

45: The Golden Rule, for one

47: Welcoming gift on Maui

48: Diabolical

50: Metrical foot

52: Eye liner?

53: Music category

54: Where you live

59: Start the match

62: Behaves

63: Almost eternity

65: Follow

66: Whiskey measure

67: Brown pigment

68: Short newspaper piece

69: Orchestra that plays light classical music

70: Like one end of a pool

71: Promontory

Down
1: Airport vehicles

2: Pretty good

3: Grace period?

4: Longhaired cat

5: Mindless card game

6: Ammonia compound

7: Stellar phenomenon

8: 'Blast!'

9: Cheesy meals

10: Help for the hapless

11: Pout

12: Uses a bookie

15: Fill with joy

21: Statistics

23: Make, as CDs

25: Shaker contents

27: Slattern

28: Synagogue scroll

29: Home planet

30: Pt. of MIT

31: Contaminate

32: British salt's sobriquet

35: 'Here ___ nothing!'

37: Irritate

39: Jacqueline du Pré and others

41: Seek cover, maybe

44: Didn't come home standing up

46: Shows the door, perhaps

49: Think tank output

51: Hardly a Mensa candidate

53: Spirit in a bottle

54: Imitate Popeye

55: Sound on the rebound

56: Word on an octagon

57: Exigency

58: Deal with it

60: Competes

61: Boulevard liners

64: Tree fluid





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