Crossword for Fri, 20/Dec/2024

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Across
1: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

4: Fitting

11: Tease mercilessly

14: ___ for tat

15: Three-dimensional scene

16: Goof up

17: Tolerate a sideshow barker?

19: Red or Yellow

20: Runner of a sort

21: Cheesy snacks

23: Syrup source

25: Energy unit

28: They're clipped and filed

29: Have markers out

30: Either of the racing Earnhardts

32: Fix a hot dog?

33: Trying experience

37: 'Two __ for Sister Sara'

39: Cowardly, in slang

43: Like a primer

44: Skiing event

46: Sound on the rebound

49: Leave in, to an editor

51: Musclebound brute

52: Knitted wrap

54: Cycle starter

55: Kind of candle

57: Poisonous-sounding alarm bell

59: Dull landing sounds

61: 'Shoot'

62: Assume liability for, as another's loan

67: Player's peg

68: Diabetic's dose

69: Opposite of paleo-

70: Wrap up

71: Is precariously perched

72: Obtain
Down
1: Tag players

2: Like a fiddle?

3: Mad rush

4: Confuse

5: Main part?

6: Bellowed

7: Food scrap

8: Butter square

9: Harbinger

10: Wrap in the kitchen

11: Send again

12: Dark circle

13: Like an infamous Dallas knoll

18: Diddly-squat

22: Plant yielding senna

23: It's heard in a herd

24: Off course

26: Nash model

27: Sandpaper component

31: Silly pair?

34: Nudges, in a way

35: In the manner of

36: Write-off

38: Building wing

40: Unit of power

41: Passing away (as time)

42: Dummy

45: Debussy's 'La ___'

46: Manor

47: Selected

48: Broke through security code, e.g.

50: Football's Y.A.

53: Permissible

55: Rotates

56: NPR has none

58: What the fourth little piggy had

60: Junior, usually

63: Employ

64: Kook

65: 'Golly!'

66: Logic circuit element




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