Crossword for Thu, 17/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Cantered

6: Track figures

10: Fossey's focus

14: Ammonia compound

15: Call a cab

16: Departed

17: Morsel

18: Cats' prey

19: Life of Riley

20: Gown features, often

22: Watermelon beginning

24: Cry over spilled milk

25: Junction

27: Thief

29: Perfumes

33: Droop

34: Brandon, Bruce and Brenda

35: Held on to

37: Condescend

41: Grassland

42: Movie greats

44: Scheduled

45: Jack of nursery rhyme

48: Leave in, to an editor

49: Cubbyholes?

50: Not against

52: Vacation spot

54: Parlor pieces

58: Window part

59: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

60: Tired adages

62: Rope down a mountain

66: Like the Atacama

68: Dogwood dropping

70: Be rude in line

71: Revealing dress

72: Perth pal

73: Mounds

74: Appear

75: Hearty meal

76: Pig noise

Down
1: Drinks like a dog

2: Fail to include

3: Cruise ship terminal

4: Surrounds with a cover

5: Become more intense

6: Electrical unit

7: Speaker's place

8: Cuts into small pieces

9: Chilling downpours

10: Electrify

11: June birthstone

12: Come after

13: Operate the rudder

21: Fires

23: More than slow, in retail

26: Wrestling contests

28: Historical period

29: Silly pair?

30: Leak slowly

31: Cauterize

32: Old footwear

36: Giant sequoias, e.g.

38: Brainwave

39: Revs

40: Digs of twigs

43: Flight component

46: Sternward

47: Corn-growing regions

49: Miami hero of 1973-74

51: Dominions

53: Necklace securers

54: False things

55: Spine-tingling

56: Threefold

57: Workout output

61: Stuff to the gills

63: Game on horseback

64: At all

65: For fear that

67: Lower, as lights

69: Not very many





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