Crossword for Tue, 12/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Striped fish

5: Game on horseback

9: Write-off

13: Foot part

14: Tended a squeaky hinge

15: Up to the task

16: Don

17: Gave a makeover to

18: Fruit for flavoring gin

19: Mica, shale, and butcher block

21: They're rigged

22: Related to the soft palate

23: Fat on the bird feeder

24: Corpus front

27: Third-generation Japanese-American

29: Praise

30: Puts the kibosh on

32: Map abbr.

34: What picky people pick

35: Some afternoon TV shows

36: Pool accessory

37: Barfly

38: Marriage announcement

39: Woodworking machine

40: Hod workers

42: Sweethearts

43: Heather

44: Stove covers

46: Cake cover

48: Diffuses

52: Trudge, as through sludge

53: Contradict

54: Sheltered inlet

55: 50-Down feature

56: Skye and Man

57: Joint with a cap

58: Promontory

59: Wrench, e.g.

60: Transmit

Down
1: Blubber

2: Bailiwick

3: Con job

4: Withers

5: Michelangelo masterpiece

6: Wiser partner

7: Island souvenirs

8: Like any number finishing with '9'

9: Cilia

10: Remove from the face of the earth

11: Sow's sustenance

12: Goes out with

14: Tests that allow talking

20: 'Far out!'

21: Phoenix roundballers

23: Dupes

24: Biddies

25: It requires no proof

26: Large military groups

27: Bread pieces, to fondue

28: Like some trigger fingers

30: Juniors, usually

31: Summer coat?

33: Barely manages, with 'out'

35: Took charge of the karaoke machine

36: Turns inside out

38: Dull, resonant sound

39: Prospector's bonanza

41: Burns a little

42: Principal residences

44: Greeting on meeting

45: Corbeled-out window

46: High spd. phone line

47: Puzzle piece

48: Colombian coin

49: Musical pitch

50: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

51: Watermelon beginning

53: Byte fraction





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