Crossword for Wed, 18/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Bounce up and down

4: Sheltered inlet

8: Tribune or Post, e.g.

13: Montreal streets

15: Call a cab

16: Appetite stimulant

17: Precedes in time

19: Long-tailed songbird

20: Polar cover

21: Stitch up

23: Tennis match divisions

24: Removal key

25: She may get sheared

27: Place to buy smoked meats

34: Gets snoopy

37: Kind of gas

38: Menlo Park monogram

39: Finder's cries

40: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

41: Lay macadam

42: President pro ___

43: Things to put out

44: 'I Know Why the ___ Bird Sings'

45: Quip, part 2

48: Old soap ingredient

49: Merchant

53: Like some eagles

56: In mourning

59: Helpmeet

60: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

62: Parts of the feet

64: Oater omen

65: Piece of strategy

66: University bigwig

67: Al ___ (pasta order)

68: What Wendy does to reattach Peter's shadow

69: Methodology (abbr.)

Down
1: Plait

2: Gold dealer's unit

3: Kind of nut in 'South Pacific'

4: Las Vegas drive-through

5: Feed seed

6: Competes

7: Apart from this

8: Fare for the toothless

9: Crops up

10: English poet Alexander

11: Give off

12: Snitches

14: Breaks away

18: Takes to the prom, e.g.

22: In a damp manner

26: Itty-bitty

28: IV part

29: Prepares an apple, perhaps

30: Disconcert

31: Kind of beetle

32: Roof rim

33: Exigency

34: Course of action

35: Flightless bird

36: Metric foot

40: A and B, in records

41: Rocket's cargo

43: Small one

44: Moved on hands and knees

46: Like Bart, among the Simpson siblings

47: Test answers in blue books

50: Fisherman's boxful

51: Piece with a purpose

52: Horse holders

53: Wedding entertainment

54: Burn soother

55: He has his pride

57: Band boxes?

58: Proofreader's mark

61: Wedding page word

63: T-bar offering





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