Crossword for Wed, 20/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Proofreader's mark

5: School of whales

8: Game on horseback

12: Analogous

13: Piece of strategy

14: Lacking backbone

15: Camp sight

16: Be idle

17: Change for the better

18: Approximated

20: Worrisome engine noise

21: Ewes' milieu

22: Chart shape

23: Reproduction cell

26: January birthstones

30: Cry over spilled milk

31: Go all the way around

34: Like lemons

35: Rewrite for a film, say

37: Coat of many colors?

38: UFO, on jetfighter's radar

39: Liver product

40: Fleet defeated in 1588

42: Flight from justice

43: Synthetic rubber ingredient

45: Broadway backers

47: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

48: Cabinet members?

50: Funeral stand

52: Alfalfa, to Spanky

56: Reef material

57: Add-on for Congo

58: Spill the beans

59: Squadrons

60: They may be wild or rolled

61: Metric foot

62: Pyramid bottom

63: 'Don't give up!'

64: Makes a sheepshank
Down
1: Prom escort

2: Barely manages, with 'out'

3: Dryer residue

4: Create a yen

5: China purchase

6: Seeps slowly

7: Not the original color

8: Olive stuffer

9: Harbinger

10: Heather

11: Like any number finishing with '9'

13: Typewriter roller

14: Snooty critter?

19: Choral composition

22: Fare for the toothless

23: Appropriates

24: Fearful request by the IRS, to some

25: ___-mouthed (insincere)

26: Festive affair

27: High-ranking Boy Scout

28: Court TV feature

29: Edible rhubarb parts

32: Became threadbare

33: Backboard attachment

36: Soak in

38: Marriage announcement

40: 'Not only that ...'

41: Places for toasting

44: Viscounts' superiors

46: Chess opening

48: Exonerate

49: In a rush

50: ___ fide

51: Colored eye part

52: Coagulate

53: Jai ___

54: Unresisting

55: Reduces in intensity

56: Baby bear




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