Crossword for Fri, 2/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Mischief-makers

5: 'To each ___ own'

8: Summer ermine

13: Stable mate

14: Puff like a pooped pup

15: Man on a mission

16: Cunctation

19: Mai ___

20: Kind of column

21: Away from the office

22: Renders powerless

26: Artifice

27: Historical period

28: Loafer inserts

29: Secondhand

30: Crowd disperser

34: Photocopier tray filler

36: Admire, and then some

37: Birthstones of some summer babies

41: ___ mater

43: Obliquely

44: Word on a gift tag

47: Kaput

49: Pooh's middle name?

50: Sales staff members

51: Silly goose

55: Had a bite

56: Preconception

57: What golfers try to break

58: Well done!

64: Combat site

65: Spoken

66: Browser function

67: Walk proudly

68: Mardi Gras luminary

69: Seductive

Down
1: Troublemaker

2: Spoil

3: Old hand

4: The Amish, the Shakers, et al.

5: Suffers from

6: Recite without modulation

7: Bee or wasp

8: Hot tubs

9: Feline, to Tweety

10: Repugnant

11: Light a fire under

12: Camped out

14: Weak poker hand

17: Wharf pest

18: Family types

22: Really dislike

23: Reason and Enlightenment

24: Nitty-gritty

25: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

26: Cuban steps

31: Lots of paper

32: Hairdo helper

33: NH3

35: Ocean bird

38: Wild about

39: Sound on the rebound

40: Leak slowly

42: Barnstormer

43: Eyebrow shape

44: Rhubarb

45: 'Your mother wears army boots!,' for one

46: Garage entry device

48: Make certain of

52: October birthstone

53: Golf range surface

54: Gets snoopy

56: Spoiled child

59: Bearded African grazer

60: Hardly hard-nosed

61: Pindar product

62: 'No dice!'

63: Pig's digs





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