Crossword for Tue, 17/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Police

5: Does a pre-laundry chore

10: Rorschach image

14: Olympic weapon

15: Salad oil holder

16: Mystique

17: Profaned

19: Deli side

20: Beg

21: Hollers

22: Divine dozen

26: Butter beans

30: Current regulators

34: Circumvent

35: Lip-___

36: Pooh's middle name?

37: Champagne drink

39: Speed up

42: ___ culpa

43: Zippo

47: Father Time feature

48: Claim

51: Exposes

52: Morning routine

54: Spot to park

57: Gaudily uniformed European cavalrymen

62: Every one individually

63: Fancy pastry

66: Word before irons or chains

67: Certain writing tool

68: Span's inches

69: Microbrewery offerings

70: Top hat accompaniment

71: Labels

Down
1: Give up

2: Sesame starter?

3: Pain in the neck

4: Person of vision

5: Do away with

6: Figures of speech?

7: Same-old-same-old

8: Player's peg

9: Avg.

10: Most immoral

11: Peaceful period

12: Spoken

13: Spherical shooters

18: Brings to a halt

21: 'Sure thing!'

23: Like a wallflower

24: Half a score

25: Ness, for one

26: Subsidiary proposition

27: Prestigious schools, informally

28: Biker chicks

29: Time-wasting bother

31: Rose oil

32: 'Ta-da!'

33: Gives a thrill to

38: Knock preceder

40: Mother superior

41: Red or Yellow

44: Feel unwell

45: She's a deer

46: Colony's home

49: Emulates Whistler

50: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

53: Walrus weapons

54: Words with precedent

55: Sandbox plaything

56: Piece of property

58: On cloud nine

59: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

60: Frodo's burden

61: Goes out with

63: Per hundred (Abbr.)

64: 'Caught you!'

65: Mai ___





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