Crossword for Mon, 2/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Electrical unit

4: Resistance units

8: Eyebrow shape

11: Precious stones

13: Uncultivated country

15: Flightless bird

16: After-dinner candy

17: Lowest point

18: Blockheads

19: Chamber pieces

21: After-dinner drink

23: Eeyore's friend

25: Watermelon beginning

26: Bottle corks

30: Brazilian dances

34: Siamese or Persian

35: Whacks

37: Hardwood tree

38: Gives the heave-ho

40: Many a 'Mad' article

42: Sandwich bread

43: Decide to look at more issues

45: Offensive smile

47: German shepherd, for one

48: Banana oil and others

50: Hothouse containers

52: Judge

54: Expensive car trips?

55: More than half of adulthood?

60: Musical speeds

63: Sound from a fan

64: Same-old same-old

66: Parade spoiler

67: Subdivision divisions

68: '___ Mia!'

69: Choose

70: Szechuan sauce source

71: Do a spit take

72: One rotation of the earth
Down
1: CEO, CFO, etc.

2: Junior, usually

3: Like God

4: Have stuff

5: All that's seen of the Wizard of Oz, at first

6: Assured of success

7: Loses weight (with 'down')

8: Finder's cries

9: Whistle-blowers, of a sort

10: Investigator's assignment

12: Bend a bit

14: ___ up (quits talking)

15: Detailed plan of action

20: Bread pieces, to fondue

22: Dark greenish blue

24: Chops down

26: Frighten

27: IRS concerns

28: Emulates Eminem

29: Percussive off-Broadway hit

31: Two forms of ID for the wedding party?

32: Cast member

33: Thick carpets

36: Potter's purchase

39: Tournament directors, at times

41: Sigma Nu, for short

44: Small songbird

46: Half hitch, e.g.

49: Rock garden creeper

51: Insignificant sort

53: Flat-topped hills

55: Piercing tools

56: 'Flee, fly!'

57: Part of a gas mileage rating

58: Beef cut

59: Identical

61: Typographic measure

62: Like a moonless night

65: Guiding principle




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