Crossword for Sat, 14/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Java vessels

5: Brothers' keepers?

11: Rm. coolers

14: Eeyore's friend

15: Evening affair

16: She's got milk

17: Rider on a crowded subway car

19: Teamwork deterrent

20: Pivotal

21: Gambler

23: Lightens, as a burden

26: Debate side

27: Empty talk

28: Bar ingredient, perhaps

30: Passes, as a law

32: Juicy Fruit, e.g.

33: Left on the plate

36: Change

41: Mollify

42: Lower, as lights

44: Depression vendors' wares

47: They're opposite points

50: Farm tower

51: 'To each ___ own'

53: History or English

54: Send a message by wire

57: '___ Loves You'

58: Wharf pest

59: Cool in a crisis

64: Had a bite

65: Lack of energy

66: Mostel of 'The Producers'

67: Craving

68: Tangled, as hair

69: Merino mamas

Down
1: At bats

2: Nonsense

3: Easter preceder?

4: Visibly distressed

5: Like burnt briquettes

6: Constricting snake

7: 'You got it!'

8: Wind instrument

9: Overflow

10: Withered

11: Kind of acid

12: Clear and convincing

13: Foils, e.g.

18: Colombian coin

22: Large waterfowl

23: Chicken-to-be

24: Jack-in-the-pulpit

25: Identical

26: Craft entered gingerly

29: Sugar servings

30: Airwaves

31: Opposite of paleo-

34: Long time

35: Church recesses

37: Eagle's claw

38: Musclebound brute

39: Brainwave

40: Business letter addressees

43: Mag. submissions

44: Off course

45: Jolly Roger flier

46: Typewriter roller

48: Feel compassion

49: Blackguard

51: Skin rash

52: Things in a shopping basket

55: Loud door sound

56: MaƮtre d's offering

57: Roe source

60: A white one is small

61: Condensation phenomenon

62: Palindromic preposition

63: Fancy affairs





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