Crossword for Thu, 9/May/2024

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Across
1: PC bailout

4: Expand

8: Fancy-schmancy

12: Incite

13: Time past

14: Fatty substance

16: Colorful parrot

17: Yokel

18: Duck

19: Fireman's tool

20: Nov. 11 honoree

21: Smidge

23: Just released

24: Fragrant gum resin

26: Not very many

28: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

30: Many a time

32: Small indentation

36: Difficult

39: October birthstone

41: Entangle

42: Have markers out

43: Greg LeMond, for one

45: Item placed on andirons

46: Envelop

48: Without a stitch

49: Swindles

50: Hand-held harp

51: Line of clothing

52: Stain, as a fabric

54: Bearded African grazer

56: Asian caregivers

60: Noah's second son

63: Band blaster

65: 28,800 seconds before midnight

67: Verbal zinger

68: Indian nursemaids

70: Nearly closed

72: Sandwich bread

73: French writer of ''The Balcony''

74: Cut back

75: Really hard on the eyes

76: Seductive

77: Word before ant or brat

78: 'Whew!'

Down
1: Strong adhesive

2: Less doubtful

3: Blubber

4: Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' word for 'scratch, dog-style'

5: 100-0, e.g.

6: Eyeball

7: Exemplar of rapid growth

8: Academy frosh

9: Coat of many colors?

10: Created a web site?

11: Seek cover, maybe

12: Loud door sound

15: Condensation phenomenon

20: Channels 2-14

22: Sternward

25: Free

27: Secretary's stat

29: Turn on the waterworks

30: Caulking material

31: Got out of Dodge

33: Like some garage floors

34: Cut short

35: Vats for frats?

36: Laugh loudly

37: Off course

38: Type of admiral

40: State tree of Maine

44: Pinot Noir or Merlot

47: Links tee

49: Amethyst or tourmaline

51: Run smoothly

53: Thanksgiving staple

55: Awful

57: Compadre

58: In a heated manner

59: Hang around

60: Crone

61: Motion-carrying votes

62: Lion's pride

64: Dad

65: Raise crops

66: Mouse, to an owl

69: Evil spell

71: Preserves preserver

72: Bar





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