Crossword for Wed, 17/Apr/2024

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Across
1: Proof of pmt.

5: Spellbound

9: Loafer, for instance

13: Jai ___

14: Spinning part

15: Junior, usually

16: Flower displayed at Christmas

18: 'You ___?' (Lurch's query)

19: Quaint lodging

20: Sesame starter?

21: Store salespeople

23: Construction sight

25: 'That was close!'

26: Ones who tell you when your slip is showing?

32: Warm and cuddly

35: Wanted poster word

36: Portable bed

37: Gives the heave-ho

38: Excessively

39: Passing fancy

40: 'Golly!'

41: Character assault

43: Romance novelist Victoria

44: Positron, e.g.

48: Snitches

49: Tarry

53: You may use it after a break

56: Geographical seven

58: Utterance of revulsion

59: Rushes

60: Desk

63: Clearasil target

64: Upgrade weapons

65: “Not guilty,” e.g.

66: Bathroom rugs

67: Lacking, along the Loire

68: Tennis match divisions

Down
1: ___ Deployment Force (one Marine division and four Army divisions)

2: Carbon copy

3: House coat

4: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

5: Repetitive routine

6: FYI cousin

7: Polynesian paste

8: Windpipe

9: Astute

10: 'I can't ___ you!'

11: Sty cry

12: Units of work

14: Office copy, commonly

17: Acidic

22: Meadows

24: Goes for

25: A ___ (deductive)

27: Horse operas

28: Parade attraction

29: Sound on the rebound

30: Irritate

31: Acct. summary

32: Sprawling narrative

33: Whom the yoke's on?

34: Loafer inserts

39: 'At what time?'

41: Stretch across

42: Is important

45: Rainbows

46: Stake

47: Grocery shopper's reference

50: Cunning

51: White wading bird

52: Ostrich look-alikes

53: Pillow cover

54: Typographic measure

55: Post-Mardi Gras period

56: Read quickly

57: Slips

61: Red or Yellow

62: Photo ___ (campaign events)





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