Crossword for Tue, 14/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Dept. store shopper's privilege

5: Counterfeit coin

9: Healthy lunch choice

14: Contaminant-free

15: Long lunch?

16: Ease off

17: Fly-by-night

19: Foamy pick-me-up

20: Hal of ''Barney Miller''

21: Approach the summit

22: Jabber

23: Pt. of USDA

26: Secular

27: Where soldiers sleep

29: Undivided

32: Braid

35: Just

36: Inch fraction

37: Sincerely zealous

39: Antiquity

42: It may be passed on the Hill

43: Uses an ax

45: Spine-tingling

46: 'The Catcher in the ___'

47: Paddling advocate

49: 100-0, e.g.

51: Word following eye or nose

52: Used to be

55: Long-legged wading birds

57: University lecturer

59: Destroy by degrees

60: Determine

63: Scrabble century

64: Pair

65: Where cookies might crumble

66: Spy

67: Wise man

68: Colombian coin
Down
1: As is fitting

2: Senate of old Rome

3: Shaft turner

4: Keep an eye on

5: Result of a punch in the face, perhaps

6: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

7: Ossuary

8: Tricked

9: Some condiments

10: Crude counters

11: Fashionable one?

12: FYI cousin

13: Property title

18: Give a Valium to, e.g.

21: Type of hydrocarbon group

24: Nuclear particle

25: Summer coat?

27: Container

28: Chummier

30: Not finalized, legally

31: Apart from this

32: Fruit cocktail fruit

33: Like a doily

34: Blood vessel connected to a capillary

38: Blind parts

40: Totalitarian ruler

41: Court divider

44: School of whales

47: The pick of the litter

48: Salt of element 53

50: In the past

52: Interlace

53: Chips in a chip

54: Minutes taker, perhaps

55: Words with precedent

56: Math subj.

58: Cut short

60: NPR has none

61: Scandinavian rug

62: Brown paper container




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