Crossword for Sat, 17/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Starts of sneezes

4: Kind of fork

10: Oates partner

14: 'Treasure Island' pirate

15: Pillage and plunder

16: Burn soother

17: Attend

18: September honoree

20: Tastefully luxurious

22: Points on a diamond?

23: Prepares leather

24: Makes sound

27: Cons' confines

28: Like many a cold sufferer

32: Worrisome engine noise

33: Indian strikers?

34: Fireman's tool

35: Musclebound brute

36: Helios, to the Romans

37: Choose

38: Brutally frank

39: Chap.'s partner

40: Mutated gene

42: Legs, slangily

43: Chief point

45: Phoenix roundballers

46: Put a counter to zero

47: Had an opinion

48: Innocent and Urban

51: Arrangement in folds

54: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

58: Old soap ingredient

59: Trellis piece

60: Easily identifiable, maybe

61: Guiding principle

62: They may be wild or rolled

63: Soothing

64: Balaam's mount
Down
1: Church recess

2: Command to Fido

3: Further inducements

4: Hearts, e.g.

5: Tall stories

6: Tiff

7: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

8: Wrap up

9: One's good name, briefly

10: Bedevil

11: Microbrewery offerings

12: Unaccompanied

13: 'Shall we?' response

19: Most up to the task

21: The Sharks or the Jets

24: Quoits target

25: Register formally

26: Wide-open

27: They're calling, in 'Danny Boy'

28: Lassie, e.g.

29: Lively Italian folk dance

30: Tests

31: Morning moistures

32: Lay macadam

33: Future stallions

36: Most reasonable

41: Feed one's face

42: [I'm in trouble!]

44: Puts up

45: Rap session?

47: Weak

48: Colombian coin

49: Earthenware jar

50: Fen fuel

51: Force

52: Handwoven rugs

53: Trees yielding elastic wood

55: Trucker's ride

56: 'PUSH FOR ___'

57: Debate side




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