Crossword for Thu, 17/Mar/2022

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Across
1: Bio class setting

4: Love handles

8: Door part

12: Investigator's assignment

13: Used to be

14: Some dairy sticks

16: Artifice

17: Mend socks

18: Clearing

19: Culture media

21: Extinct flightless bird

23: Figurine mineral

24: Toddler's constant question

25: 'That was close!'

27: Oath

29: Cluster bean

30: Affair wear

31: LP measure

34: Harmony

37: Slightly tainted

38: Not the other guy

39: Civil unrest

40: Show of affection

41: Bounded area forming part of a whole

42: Navigator's need

43: Tiny amount

45: Dishevel

47: Szechuan sauce source

48: Coke's partner, at the bar

49: Surly look

50: Place for P.E.

51: Driving hazards

52: Unit of oil production, briefly

55: Sham

58: 'Flee, feline!'

60: Spasm

62: Terminating

64: Pretty good

66: Crystal sound

67: Fix loose laces

68: Little bit

69: Prepares leather

70: Judge

71: Facial arch

72: Get nosy
Down
1: Amused reaction

2: Drug test

3: Ballpark beverage

4: Basketball position (abbr.)

5: Ring follower

6: It shows the way

7: Be flexible

8: Slow running pace

9: Give permission for

10: Nasty

11: Main mass

12: Where something may stick

15: Birth certificate notation

20: Incite

22: Egg, classically

26: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

28: Kind of moron?

29: Tricked

30: Label

31: Deli loaves

32: ___ tax

33: Symbol of stubbornness

34: Provides weapons to

35: 'I'm history!'

36: Go ape?

37: Place for a feeling

40: 'Run to ___' (Bobby Vee hit)

41: Slice

43: Bitterly amusing

44: Is at a loss for words?

45: Dress fancily, with 'out'

46: Vote off the island

49: Latke ingredient

50: Spirit in a bottle

51: Hindu monk regarded as a holy man

52: Prickly shrub

53: Pretty, in Dundee

54: Table supports

55: A long way off

56: Fired

57: You don't need a license to fly it

59: Foghorn Leghorn feature

61: URL opener

63: Amethyst or tourmaline

65: Archery bow wood




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