Crossword for Wed, 15/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Enjoyable

4: Auction offering

7: Dept. store shopper's privilege

11: Grad

13: Concluding dance movement

15: Blue fish in 'Finding Nemo'

16: Prefix with European

17: Merits, as compensation

18: Kind of coffee

19: Concerns for ecologists

22: Opposite of paleo-

23: ''Georgy Girl'' group (with ''The'')

24: Dreamers, to lotus flowers

26: Droop

27: Corporate combination

29: Brake neighbor

32: Inner legbone

34: Insinuatingly spoken

37: Goes for

39: Green garnish

41: Tight-fitting

42: Gave a hand?

44: Chips in a chip

46: Slimy stuff

47: Salutes an honoree

49: She's got milk

51: Indian communal structure

53: Changes

57: Tag players

58: Foundation

61: Peru's capital

63: Linen fabric

64: Ditty

65: Sparkle

66: Fire engine accessories

67: Surface-to-surface missile

68: Refute

69: Garbage bag closer

70: 'To each ___ own'
Down
1: Trade shows

2: Arm bones

3: Playboy, for one

4: Tall-tale tellers

5: Shrek, e.g.

6: Vintners' vessels

7: Include

8: Gaining control over, in a way

9: Announcer of yore

10: Copy editor's quarries

12: Cloister inhabitants

13: Virgil work

14: Any acetate, chemically

20: Tour de force

21: Slumps

25: Sawbucks

27: Bearings

28: Right, on the map

29: Creator of the universe

30: Musclebound brute

31: Distinguished politician

33: Spoiled child

35: White Stripes, for one

36: Teamwork deterrent

38: Neatnik's nemesis

40: Makes fast

43: Baby powder

45: Tipplers

48: Kind of sayer

50: Charlie of the Rolling Stones

51: Made a heap

52: Handy

53: Free-for-all

54: Go partner

55: Weariness

56: Grape centers

59: Word with beer or cellar

60: Not finalized, legally

62: Whichever




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