Crossword for Sat, 12/Feb/2022

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Across
1: Separate

5: Church group

10: Carp cousin

14: Ammonia compound

15: Rub the wrong way

16: Word of woe

17: Warm, in a sense

18: Appraisal

20: '__ Resartus' (Carlyle)

22: Long haul

23: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

24: Musclebound brute

25: Tear gas target

27: One who knows the score

33: Cut off

34: Prevent, with 'off'

35: Deli counter fish

39: Microbrewery offerings

41: Massachusetts cape

42: Filet mignon source

43: Musical pitches

45: Comerica Park ballplayer

48: Ran in front

49: Using both sides with equal frequency (like the letters in this puzzle's answer grid?)

52: __ dictum: passing remark

55: Capital of Phoenix?

56: Bleacher creature?

57: Information from Deep Throat

60: Steer clear of

64: Rapture

67: Every one individually

68: Meditation method

69: Nuts for drink flavoring

70: 'Natch!'

71: Cause of a bad air day

72: Germ cell

73: Amaze
Down
1: Paronomastic collection

2: Bailiwick

3: Type of admiral

4: Genghis Khan follower

5: Least prevalent

6: 'Sure thing!'

7: Digs of twigs

8: Kaput

9: Sandy tract

10: Block up

11: Tornado siren, e.g.

12: Craft entered gingerly

13: Any acetate, chemically

19: Berlin's 'Blue ___'

21: Goes for

26: Spoken

27: Trellis piece

28: Game on horseback

29: Sesame starter?

30: Prickly plants

31: Duck

32: Tufted plant

36: New Mexico necktie

37: Stead

38: Budgets make them meet

40: Place for the catbird?

44: Process ore

46: Outlay

47: St. and ave.

50: Goes to pieces?

51: Time for kickball, maybe

52: Follows the leader

53: Pleasingly plump

54: Grown grub

58: Capping

59: Drug unit

61: ___ monde (society)

62: Non-clashing color

63: 'At what time?'

65: Fail to keep up

66: Crew implement




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