Crossword for Wed, 16/Feb/2022

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Across
1: Auction offers

5: Quakers or Shakers

9: Neck wrap

14: Got grounded?

15: Indian maid

16: Word with cord or chord

17: Jambalaya grain

18: In-box item

19: Ticked off

20: Record collections?

22: Lovers' lane event

23: Graduated

24: Olympic weapon

26: Filing aids

29: Lines that are not rehearsed

33: Thick carpets

37: Write-off

39: Chemical group derived from benzene

40: Job for a grease monkey

41: Three squares

42: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

43: Harbinger

44: Wise guy?

45: Decide to look at more issues

46: Admire, and then some

48: Hang around

50: Snitches

52: Rotini and ziti

57: Forum wear

60: Helper

63: Ruling class

64: Baikal is the world's deepest

65: Strongly advise

66: Bad press?

67: Kind of acid

68: Gaucho's cattle catcher

69: Windblown soil

70: Patronize a fine restaurant

71: Tobacco pipe part
Down
1: Troubadours of yore

2: Of the hipbone

3: Judicial opinions

4: Incredible bargain

5: City on the Volga

6: Spots

7: Arrived

8: The things there

9: Sewing kit collection

10: Mutually comparable

11: On vacation, perhaps

12: Soaks, as flax

13: Neck line?

21: Nutty

25: Quarterback's call

27: ___ cheese

28: Flies high

30: Hulks pump it

31: Memory morsel

32: Sluggish

33: Fruit for flavoring gin

34: Is at a loss for words?

35: Assist larcenously

36: Whips up

38: Slattern

41: CEO, CFO, etc.

45: Handwoven rugs

47: Stands near those who sit

49: Each

51: 'To your health!'

53: Theater floor litter

54: Fortuneteller's deck

55: Point of view

56: 9-Down output

57: Drop a dime on

58: Potpourri

59: Take digs at

61: Bombay garment

62: Hurt, as a knee




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