Crossword for Fri, 1/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Multigenerational story

5: Scratching post users

9: Resistance units

13: ___ fide

14: Snobbishly unfriendly

16: Honker

17: Padrone

18: Type of pad

19: Bombay garment

20: Wool source

22: Lice and the like

24: Glee

26: 4-H member, usually

27: Half ___ (dive)

29: Unique

33: Ossuary

34: Alpine aria

36: Stuffing stuff

38: Claustrophobia, for one

40: IRS concerns

42: Pleasant French resort?

43: Destined

45: Kind of chest or closet

47: Stanley, for one

48: Breaks away

50: Biblical insect

52: Guiding principle

53: Kiosk

54: Nearness

59: Small waterway

62: Many millennia

63: Bananas or nuts

65: Symbol of stubbornness

66: Stag or bull, e.g.

67: Human trunk

68: Make java

69: Ran in the wash

70: Was certain of

71: What Wendy does to reattach Peter's shadow

Down
1: Reduces in intensity

2: Eeyore's friend

3: Sow

4: Milk protein

5: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

6: Introduction to Hebrew?

7: Roman wrap

8: Glide high

9: Volcanic glass

10: Miami cagers

11: Stable mate

12: Goes downhill fast?

15: Bit of snowfall

21: Mouse, to an owl

23: Bay or day preceder

25: Harness race pace

27: Verbal abuse

28: Geometry calculations

29: Battle of the ___

30: Responded 'Not guilty'

31: Beekeeping

32: Center of activity

35: Carp cousin

37: Held on to

39: Got off one's feet, in a way

41: Shaker contents

44: University bigwig

46: Word in seven Hope titles

49: Resided

51: Scales

53: Vague perception

54: Metric foot

55: Ground corn

56: Spy spying on a spy

57: Quiet spot

58: 'Hee Haw' humor

60: Ball of yarn

61: Chops down

64: Reaction to a hotfoot, perhaps





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