Crossword for Wed, 20/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Come to mind

6: Butcher's leavings

11: Center of activity

14: Puts the kibosh on

15: It could be a grand

16: Tap output

17: Piercing

19: Quaint lodging

20: Welt

21: Harbor helper

22: Wharf pest

23: Answered with cheek

26: Complicated situations

28: Food scrap

29: Hip-hop artist Elliott

33: Out of work? (abbr.)

34: Not against

35: Table spread

36: Manner of performance

39: Indian housemaid

41: Twill weave

43: Loud door sound

44: Palatable

46: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

47: Troublemaker

48: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

49: Cancún coins

51: Go down

52: Trick-taking card game

55: Prune danish, e.g.

57: Half a score

58: Full amount

60: Monthly payment, for many

61: Tease mercilessly

62: Thing that conceals

67: Star pitcher

68: Modern form of communication

69: Flourless cake

70: A pop

71: Tattered and torn

72: Quickly
Down
1: Pharaohs' symbol of power

2: Map abbr.

3: Cyclotron bit

4: Shoots out

5: Admire, and then some

6: October birthstone

7: Like a fiddle?

8: ___ accompli

9: Per ___

10: Lumberjacks

11: Entourage member, sometimes

12: Arm bones

13: Dispositions

18: Car accessories

23: Lobby furniture

24: Appetite stimulant

25: Rider on a crowded subway car

27: Tennis match divisions

30: Enjoy a bed

31: Start the match

32: Leg crossers

37: Poorer, as excuses go

38: Devoid

40: Hurried

42: Splits to unite

45: Bedroom bureau

50: Sacred places

52: Safety device

53: Serenity

54: Diploma word, sometimes

56: Barbershop band?

59: Protective trench

60: Trust, with 'on'

63: Set of supplies

64: Long time

65: List abbr.

66: Wedding page word




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