Crossword for Thu, 2/May/2024

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Across
1: PC bailout

4: Label

7: Flower sites

11: Art ___

12: Potter's purchase

13: Gold, chemically speaking

15: Citrus cooler

17: Type of queen

18: Cone producer

19: Impassioned

21: Coquettish

22: Finder's charge

23: Gals' beaus

24: Miami cagers

27: Video recorder, for short

28: Ancient Egyptian amulet

30: Pepper spray alternative

33: Wise man

36: Yellowish brown pigment

38: Major pain, slangily

39: Arouse great enthusiasm

40: Friend

41: Uses Elmer's

43: Louisiana politician Huey

45: Proofreader's mark

46: Gets off the beaten path

48: Scandinavian rug

50: A or B, in personalities

51: Down in the dumps

53: Include

56: Squeeze (out)

58: Quantity

60: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese

61: Buildings with broad sides?

64: Provoke

66: Dickens's '___ House'

67: Budget decisions

68: Mocked by imitating

69: Antsy

70: Balaam's mount

71: Four-poster, e.g.
Down
1: Spine-tingling

2: Frighten

3: Debate side

4: Apple polisher

5: Helpers

6: Campbell of country music

7: Goalie's protection

8: '___ Town'

9: Yielding

10: Akebono's sport

11: Tip, as a fedora

12: Medical fluids

14: Fifth calendar page

16: Wild (over)

20: Pot ingredient?

25: Vichy water

26: Fleet defeated in 1588

27: Waldorf salad ingredient

28: Stitched

29: Telephony pioneer

30: EPA computation

31: Feels poorly

32: Untidy

34: Piercing tools

35: Slimy stuff

37: 'The Catcher in the ___'

42: Tree fluid

44: Weightlifter's sounds

47: Senate vote

49: Bigfoot's Asian cousin

51: Employee's reward

52: Craves

53: Wide-open

54: Old hat

55: Not the original color

56: Fall off, as the tide

57: Curly-leafed cabbage

59: Isinglass

62: Carp constantly

63: The limit, for some

65: Debatable gift




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