Crossword for Wed, 13/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Spill the beans

5: Puts away

10: Wimbledon hits

14: Pat response

15: First two-time, and first female, Nobelist

16: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

17: Dashboard display

20: Just released

21: Boulevard liners

22: Something to build on

23: Scheduled

24: Veneer layer

25: Slowly, in music

28: Lively outing

30: '___ appétit!'

33: Name on the marquee

34: Tears

38: Peak stat

39: Mottled inlay material

42: Varlet

43: Kind of norms

44: Geishas' sashes

46: Campaigned for office

47: Andes pack animal

51: Circular deli treat

53: Spanky, to Alfalfa

55: Hour div.

56: Chilled, in a way

58: Fly alone

59: Ending of many WWW addresses

60: Job category

64: Comparison word

65: Intense

66: Conjurer

67: Romance novelist Victoria

68: Sondheim/Styne musical

69: Responded 'Not guilty'
Down
1: Poker posts

2: Batting order

3: 'Jeopardy!' clue

4: Wager

5: Racing shell

6: Tuck site

7: Hematite and galena

8: Get five in a row, in bingo

9: Tennis match divisions

10: Coffeehouse orders

11: Eastern

12: Life story, for short

13: Japanese honorific

18: States again

19: Feel unwell

26: Companion of dark and handsome

27: Food scrap

29: Goof up

30: Washroom tub

31: Type of arch

32: Digs of twigs

35: Scene of many a werewolf tale

36: Typographic measure

37: Onion variety

39: Oktoberfest horn

40: Novel

41: Building wing

42: Corn unit

45: Right-triangle reciprocal

48: Ethically neutral

49: Desert illusion

50: Fished with a hook

52: Part of a journey

53: Sticks one's bottom lip out

54: Back way

57: Bummer

58: Atlantic food fish

60: Utmost

61: 'What have we here?'

62: Very cold

63: Diamond judge




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