Crossword for Sun, 18/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Train for a title fight

5: Edible rhubarb parts

10: Welt

14: Job for a grease monkey

15: Method of reasoning

16: Angelic aura

17: Kind of column

18: Quintessence

20: Banana oil and others

22: Tobacco pipe part

23: Squeeze (out)

24: 'Uh uh'

25: Propaganda target

27: Absentminded type

33: Affair wear

34: Be taken with

35: Keno's cousin

39: Chamber music instrument

41: Firearm

42: My brothel's keeper?

43: Loose woman

45: Finito

48: Free

49: They may be tugged at

52: Alternative to 'page down'

55: Biretta or beret

56: 'Caught you!'

57: Goes for

60: Strong-jawed scavengers

64: Seafarer's aid

67: Summon

68: Kaput

69: Knight dress?

70: Knock preceder

71: Promontory

72: Priggish people

73: Section in the credits
Down
1: Fruit for flavoring gin

2: Paronomastic collection

3: Assist larcenously

4: Take offense at

5: Sharply reduced, as a price

6: Go over

7: Qualities of the conceited

8: Massachusetts governor Romney

9: Conceptual framework

10: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

11: Lightens, as a burden

12: Much the same

13: Takes it on the chin

19: Modern form of communication

21: ___-tat

26: 'I'm better than you' sort

27: Put into the overhead bin

28: Take to a higher power

29: Neural fiber

30: Four-minute mile breaker Bannister

31: Main impact

32: Tears apart

36: Mountain lake

37: Branchlet

38: Track figures

40: Sound on the rebound

44: Spartan serf

46: Some glass artists

47: Low cart

50: Shining stars

51: Medicinal plant

52: Place for tanning

53: Onion and leek relative

54: Frenzies

58: Ripped apart

59: Akebono's sport

61: Grandmother, affectionately

62: Hgts.

63: Cat's eye, sometimes

65: 9 - 5, e.g.

66: Turn on the waterworks




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