Crossword for Wed, 18/Sep/2024

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Across
1: Unload, as stock

5: Borrrring

9: Bulk

13: “Not guilty,” e.g.

14: Upbeat

15: 'Gone With the Wind' star Clark

16: Rich soil

17: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

18: Prego competitor

19: Chowhounds have big ones

21: Pensive piece of poetry

22: Colorful aquarium fish

23: Boxers' wraps

25: Wager

27: It's pink in Peter Sellers movies

31: Branchlet

35: Smidge

37: Sonora shawl

38: Indy 500 and Daytona 500

40: Bar

42: Casting director's assignments

43: Like a shirt from the dry cleaner

45: Brake neighbor

47: Bump into

48: Nonproprietary

50: Place for a rubber duckie

52: Kidney-related

54: Dominions

59: Baal bondsman?

62: Corporate meeting place

64: Fill with joy

65: Fluish feeling

66: Obnoxious

67: Itching (to)

68: Blossom from a bulb

69: October birthstone

70: 'Rock and Roll All Nite' band

71: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

72: Lash mark

Down
1: Water balloon impact sound

2: Choose the window instead of the aisle?

3: Bounded

4: Poorer, as excuses go

5: Like Swiss steak

6: Popular ABC adventure series

7: Price fixer

8: Herb in the mint family

9: Pandemonium

10: Up to the task

11: Smelting residue

12: Seductive

15: Not as experienced

20: Check

24: ___-relief

26: Dance like Hines

28: Golfer Irwin

29: Olympic weapon

30: Unused portion

31: Math subj.

32: Hard or soft addition

33: Computer signpost

34: Whips up

36: Cockroach, for one

39: Comparatively calm

41: Take one's cuts

44: Tumultuous noise

46: Fringed carriages

49: Jewish occult philosophy

51: Four-poster, e.g.

53: Enter one's computer password

55: It shows the way

56: Jeweler's eyeglass

57: ___ auxiliary (verb like can or might)

58: Process ore

59: Cheat in hide-and-seek

60: Jai ___

61: Practical jokes

63: Word heard on December 31





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