Crossword for Sun, 13/Aug/2023

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Across
1: 'That was close!'

5: Low-quality diamond

9: Lips, in Latin

14: False witness

15: Dubai VIP

16: Almost eternity

17: Gumbo vegetable

18: Write up

19: Timely blessings

20: Place to buy smoked meats

23: Like so

24: Helios, to the Romans

25: Come to pass

28: Hearth heap

30: Restfulness

32: Crude abode

33: Part of the evening news

37: Kind of acid

39: Noah's second son

40: Harness race pace

41: Initially embroidered

46: Unproductive

47: Sock pattern

48: Meat case selection

50: Vote to kill

51: In the manner of

53: Heels

54: Party at the Bates Motel?

59: Sycamore trunks

62: Treat a pledge poorly

63: Potpourri

64: Linen fabric

65: At all

66: Secretarial fill-in

67: Sharpens an ax, e.g.

68: Cubbyholes?

69: Back talk
Down
1: Walk slowly

2: Go backpacking

3: Count's counterpart

4: Visible spirit

5: Since

6: Drops

7: Ceremonial practice

8: Head lock

9: Office gizmo

10: Many millennia

11: Haunting sound

12: Quaint lodging

13: Balaam's mount

21: Meditate (on)

22: Ruing the run, perhaps

25: Stockpiles

26: Classify

27: Rocker Tom

28: ___ borealis

29: Mean

31: Per hundred (Abbr.)

32: Earthling

34: 'Caught you!'

35: Highlander's cap

36: 'I wonder...'

38: Coquettish

42: They're found beside temples

43: Trust, with 'on'

44: They're opposite points

45: Extinct flightless bird

49: Dressy scarfs

52: Felt bad

53: Trick

54: Hit with hailstones

55: Give birth to

56: Some intestinal divisions

57: Goals

58: Uses an ax

59: Incidentally, in Netspeak

60: Chimpanzee's hoot

61: A white one is small




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