Crossword for Fri, 16/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Pageantry

5: Jack of nursery rhyme

10: Provides weapons to

14: Large pitcher

15: Flying solo

16: Tide type

17: Current generator

19: Sprawling narrative

20: Bloodsucker

21: Acknowledges silently

22: Small songbird

23: Sesame, e.g.

25: Short coat

27: Dressmaker's tuck

29: Tests that allow talking

32: Summoned

35: Fizzify

39: Opposite of paleo-

40: Musclebound brute

41: Meeting log

42: Hoedown honey

43: President pro ___

44: Clear, as a drain

45: Transmit

46: Biz bigwigs

48: Light spray

50: Hebrew firsts

54: Coercion

58: 'I'll catch it!'

60: Bounder

62: Glee

63: Skunk's funk

64: Stager

66: Reserved parking space, e.g.

67: It comes before Christmas

68: Musical pitch

69: Back talk

70: Remove graphite or graffiti

71: Units of work
Down
1: Loud bursts

2: Just-hatched hooter

3: Rhythmic pattern in poetry

4: Go before

5: Japanese honorific

6: Course of action

7: Spinning part

8: Battery terminal

9: By no means long-winded

10: 'Jeopardy!' clue

11: Change furniture around

12: Conjurer

13: Stretch across

18: Flightless bird

24: It's a drag on a gown

26: Them, to us

28: Sawbucks

30: Show partiality

31: Listened to the bears

32: Diminish

33: High point

34: Bearings

36: Same-old-same-old

37: Bit to split

38: Half-hearted

41: Ponder

45: Create furrows in

47: Store salespeople

49: Addition problems

51: Most important

52: Greek hymnist

53: Exceeding

55: Fielder's faux pas

56: Former Police man

57: Footwear

58: Swabs

59: Brainwave

61: Slips

65: Spot




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