Crossword for Thu, 19/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Leaping insect

5: Mocked by imitating

9: Coal haulers

14: Fishing gear

15: Theater section

16: Spine-tingling

17: Flap

19: Clove or cinnamon

20: Kind of pole

21: Use a sieve

23: Remote room?

24: Impetuous

27: Word of woe

29: BIG DIPPER

34: Corn unit

35: Antitoxins

36: Qui-Gon Jinn, to Obi-Wan Kenobi

38: Kind of column

40: Sheriff's band

42: Blended-family prefix

43: Brobdingnag residents

45: Geological time periods

47: Shade tree

48: Professionals who might get your back up?

51: Sandwich fish

52: Like Richard and Yorick?

53: Winter ailment

56: Ancient Egyptian emblems

58: Cha-cha cousin

62: Ship's positioning system

64: Disney's art

67: About

68: Slinky, essentially

69: Non-clashing color

70: Finishes ahead of

71: Do a spit take

72: Lacking, along the Loire
Down
1: Sigma Nu, for short

2: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

3: Browser function

4: Toward the rear of a boat

5: Peak stat

6: Polynesian paste

7: Qualities of the conceited

8: Repudiation

9: Having a will

10: One's good name, briefly

11: Like the Atacama

12: Cats' prey

13: Observed

18: Accumulate

22: Antonio Gades's dance style

25: Some adoptees

26: Long lunch?

28: Greed and gluttony

29: Shaped like a dunce cap

30: Religious belief that involves sorcery

31: Holography device

32: Web-footed mammal

33: Seasonal songs

34: Minor player, so to speak

37: LP measure

39: Blue funk

41: Word before opera or dish

44: Class cutters

46: Small aperture

49: Trees with purplish flowers

50: Gives a speech

53: Love handles

54: Unaccompanied

55: Ammonia compound

57: Barbershop sound

59: Isinglass

60: ___ yesterday (naive)

61: Responsibility

63: Aardvark's tidbit

65: Wrath

66: Kitten's cry




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