Crossword for Wed, 17/May/2023

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Across
1: Items in red

6: Cheat in hide-and-seek

10: Police

14: Just-hatched hooter

15: Make money

16: Curly coif

17: Serenity

18: Hard to bear

20: Art connoisseurs (var.)

22: Flammable gas

23: Nonsense

24: Star pitcher

25: Ran in front

26: Offspring of Bold Ruler and Somethingroyal

31: Rowed the boat

32: Mont Blanc, for one

33: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

37: 'Blast!'

38: Immeasurable depth

40: Plumb crazy

41: Help for the hapless

42: Opposite of paleo-

43: Sparkling topper

44: Tolerate a sideshow barker?

47: Life story, for short

50: Like cherries jubilee

51: Van Gogh's love offering

52: Naked as a jaybird

54: Boils down

59: In a stupor

61: 'Farewell, François!'

62: Was certain of

63: Scrabble letter

64: Migrant worker, at times

65: Tennis match divisions

66: Silly pair?

67: Reactions to fresh remarks, maybe

Down
1: Dummy

2: Merino mamas

3: Utter loudly

4: Pt. of MIT

5: Took the tiller

6: Spanish monetary unit

7: Bolts down

8: Goof up

9: Protectors of certain hinge joints

10: Johnny with a guitar

11: Butcher's leavings

12: What a gardener might do

13: Fixed, as a shoe

19: Leave in, to an editor

21: Little one

24: Feels poorly

26: Soft drink

27: Count's counterpart

28: Study in a panic

29: Soaks, as flax

30: First synthetic fiber

33: Cat's eye, sometimes

34: Joseph had one of many colors

35: Piece of property

36: Niagara Falls sound

38: Poison undoer

39: Lick

43: Clan garb

44: Trellis piece

45: Uses a scraper, perhaps

46: Faux follower

47: Emulates a bronco

48: Foolish

49: Group of eight

53: Penal code entries

54: Soup herb

55: Object of pagan worship

56: Peru's capital

57: Entrechat or jeté

58: Froth

60: Diddly-squat





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