Crossword for Wed, 13/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Pastrami places

6: Galley propellers

10: Bosom buddies

14: Ooze out

15: Civil unrest

16: Kind of acid

17: Poorer, as excuses go

18: Down in the dumps

19: Body of an organism

20: Handicap

22: Starter starter?

24: Inch fraction

25: Nursing need

27: Having a toothed edge

29: Strokes gently

33: Attend

34: Montreal streets

35: Butter units

37: Extended and dramatic narratives

41: 'You ___ here'

42: Revue segments

44: Pigeon patter

45: Healing salves

48: Leak slowly

49: Libel, for instance

50: Starts of sneezes

52: Fixed payments, as for students

54: Sonnet sections

58: Cauterize

59: 'Hee ___'

60: Braille markings

62: Sonora shawl

66: Bailiwick

68: Eerie sound

70: Female demon

71: Bend, as a joint

72: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

73: Gimlet garnishes

74: A or B, in personalities

75: Sluggish

76: Battery terminal

Down
1: Home of heroes?

2: Course climax

3: Hunk

4: Cooks up

5: Annual October event, with 'the'

6: Eyeball

7: Feels poorly

8: Scoundrels

9: Source of ancient depictions of kings and gods

10: Boil fluid

11: Appetite stimulant

12: Casino ceiling

13: Actor's minimum wage

21: Grates upon

23: On the house

26: Shipbuilding woods

28: One's good name, briefly

29: Constant complainer

30: Mystique

31: Tape spool

32: Filthy abodes

36: Manuscript markings

38: Computer signpost

39: Line

40: Tipplers

43: Double agents

46: Golf range surface

47: Let fall

49: Part of ATV

51: Puts one's foot down, hard

53: Spanish dish

54: Swindle

55: Ahead of schedule

56: Win them all

57: Seat at the bar

61: Starch from palms

63: BB's and bullets

64: Like the fabled piper

65: Life of Riley

67: Fireman's tool

69: When most children want things





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