Crossword for Wed, 17/Aug/2022

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Across
1: Lyric poem

6: Gardener's coil

10: Surface-to-surface missile

14: 'Yowza!'

15: Figurine mineral

16: Friend

17: Represent onstage

18: Type of league

19: Gradual decline

20: Designs

22: Bask in a bath

24: Mindless card game

25: Jack-in-the-pulpit

27: Delights

29: Having less animation

33: Chicken-to-be

34: Goals

35: Follow

37: Twill weave

41: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

42: Symbolized, with 'for'

44: Wrath

45: Dawn

48: Recipe direction

49: Elec., e.g.

50: Divot material

52: Fragments

54: Comparatively calm

58: Cauterize

59: Player's peg

60: What some writers work on

62: Makes like a bloodhound

66: Spoken

68: Harness race pace

70: Block house?

71: Dress design

72: Hawaiian dance

73: Peasant

74: Pain in the neck

75: Go postal

76: Spirited horse

Down
1: Spots

2: Ale serving

3: Pretty good

4: Bust to a private, say

5: Banana oil and others

6: Quoits target

7: Responsibility

8: Online VIP

9: Breathe out

10: Coping device

11: Part of a tiger's arsenal

12: Arm bones

13: Garment workers

21: Attache case carriers

23: Vats for frats?

26: Beef and pork

28: Historical period

29: Women, to a buckaroo

30: Stead

31: Last word in prayer

32: Mob actions

36: Some are tender

38: Ceremonial practice

39: Determination

40: They get into sushi

43: ___ up (quits talking)

46: Employ

47: Soprano Lily

49: Vertical

51: Plumb-line measures

53: Falls apart

54: Percussive off-Broadway hit

55: Spine-tingling

56: Cracks the books

57: Later showing

61: Root beer alternative

63: Sooty shaft

64: Bad driver's shout

65: Listened to the bears

67: Like cherries jubilee

69: Dance like Hines





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