Crossword for Thu, 16/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Combat challenges

6: Go, with 'on down'

9: Hunk of cheese

13: Old-womanish

14: 'Caught you!'

15: Garlic bulb

16: Baby bug

17: '___ appétit!'

18: Broadcast

19: Retirement home residents (with ''the'')

21: Some post office machines

23: Red or Yellow

24: Fiery stack

25: Whichever

28: Bologna boss

30: Kind of fracture

35: Hit the horn

37: 'That ___ it!'

39: Diploma word, sometimes

40: Young'un

41: Popeye's buddies

43: Lure

44: Combat site

46: Show partiality

47: Something to build on

48: Caught some z's

50: Handwoven rugs

52: Ran in front

53: Goes bad

55: Word before sheet or session

57: Examine by touch

61: Fails to support

65: Tornado siren, e.g.

66: 'Friendly' pronoun

68: Win them all

69: Craft entered gingerly

70: Campaigned for office

71: Kind of down

72: Do-it-yourselfers' needs

73: Historical period

74: Like a blank face
Down
1: Dorothy from Kansas

2: Uptight, slangily

3: Encircle

4: Fairy tale shoemaker's helpers

5: Burned superficially

6: ' ___, It's Cold Outside'

7: 'What have we here?'

8: Richly-colored violet

9: Cat's eye, sometimes

10: Old wives' tales and such

11: State peremptorily

12: Where oysters grow

15: Insertion indicators

20: Glorifies

22: Surgery sites, briefly

24: KP tools

25: Rose oil

26: Bête ___

27: They join the team

29: Brat's stocking stuffer

31: Applies pressure to

32: Modern form of communication

33: Smack down

34: Gorged

36: Camp sight

38: Hang around

42: Game trap

45: Fizzify

49: Morse code component

51: Talks back to

54: Colorful aquarium inhabitant

56: Black-headed gull

57: Word with animal or a punch

58: Jai ___

59: Post-Mardi Gras period

60: Lions and Tigers and Bears

61: Unit of force

62: Upgrade the decor

63: Adolescent

64: Nimble

67: Crone




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