Crossword for Thu, 12/Dec/2024

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Across
1: In mourning

4: Padrone

8: Eulogy, Part 3

12: Morse's creation

13: Spoiled child

14: Teamsters, for one

16: WWW programming code

17: Pumice source

18: 'Last ___ in Paris'

19: Handy

21: Geek's cousin

23: Part of ROM

24: Tricked

25: Sty list?

27: St. Louis gridder

29: French film

30: Zoological duct

31: Smidge

34: Hit

37: Stadium passage

38: Coat of many colors?

39: Thy, nowadays

40: Pinch

41: Major ___

42: Heart of the matter

43: Make academic

45: Parchment?

47: Blubber

48: Show of affection

49: Went to court

50: Ad ___ committee

51: Wild (over)

52: Reaction to a hotfoot, perhaps

55: Root beer alternative

58: Highway hooter

60: Town square

62: Flooded

64: Door fastener

66: Sailor's greeting

67: Right-hand page

68: Prom escort

69: Charged particles

70: Like one end of a pool

71: Glitch

72: She's a deer
Down
1: ___ voce

2: Let on

3: Farmer's hangout, in a children's song

4: Unit of oil production, briefly

5: Syracuse players

6: Puts on the hard drive

7: Name on the marquee

8: Protrude

9: Render harmless

10: Trig ratio

11: Roman wrap

12: Drink down

15: Silent sayso

20: Multigenerational story

22: Spot of brandy

26: Cartridge contents

28: Pharaohs' symbol of power

29: Varlet

30: Dyer's tub

31: One way out

32: Goals

33: Rorschach image

34: Lip-___

35: Term of enlistment

36: Like Dorothy's slippers in 'The Wizard of Oz'

37: Nonsense

40: Slow running pace

41: Accomplished

43: Electrical unit

44: 'Hey, that hurts!'

45: Harbor helper

46: Multitude

49: Sacred places

50: Hurried pace

51: Pun reaction, perhaps

52: Popular search engine

53: Ultraviolet ray absorber

54: Methods

55: Vehicle at a drive-in movie

56: Was in the red

57: Boot binding

59: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

61: Given the ax, with “off”

63: Bounce like a kangaroo

65: Barrel of suds




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