Crossword for Wed, 10/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Insignificant upturn

5: PC movie format

9: Secret store

14: No longer green

15: Thus

16: Moderate gray

17: Claim

19: Well-lit lobbies

20: Narratives

21: Sailor, in slang

23: Peak stat

24: Chimney sweep's target

26: Big bangs

28: Organizations with Greek letters

33: 'What ___ Want' (2000 film)

34: Wharf pest

35: 'I wonder...'

38: Title for Edith Evans

39: Certain food fishes

41: Mint

43: Morse code component

44: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

45: Hunt holler

46: Job that involves ladder climbing

50: Fall bloomers

53: Give the ax to

54: Take to court

55: Starts of sneezes

57: Demolished

62: Jack of nursery rhyme

64: Lack of knowledge

66: Spine-tingling

67: Turns to the right

68: Became threadbare

69: Coal haulers

70: Acknowledges silently

71: Many a retired thoroughbred
Down
1: Lingerie buys

2: Grocery shopper's reference

3: ___ facto

4: Look narrowly

5: Space rock

6: Jail

7: Teamwork deterrent

8: Cymbal relative

9: Balanced

10: Feline, to Tweety

11: Distinctive atmospheres

12: 'Don't cry over ___ milk'

13: Preliminary races

18: Ascended

22: Parting words?

25: Diatribes

27: Sub sinker

28: Basketball position (abbr.)

29: Word in seven Hope titles

30: BB's and bullets

31: Cut canines

32: Small amount

36: Lose feathers

37: Eminem's '8 ___'

39: 'Pipe down!'

40: Suffers from

42: Easter preceder?

45: Trail follower

47: Gives a speech

48: Hocked

49: Direction for a crossword solver

50: Balance sheet positive

51: 'Marvelous!'

52: ___ firma

56: Indication

58: Raven cries

59: Half hitch, e.g.

60: Non-clashing color

61: Property title

63: Point, as a rifle

65: Metro maker




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