Crossword for Thu, 21/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Besides

5: Thus

9: Garbage barge

13: It may be Olympic-sized

14: Aerobat's maneuvers

16: Roman wrap

17: Be a whiner

18: Calendar page

19: Make money

20: Leave without paying

22: Laid waste

24: Informal goodbyes

26: Goalie's protection

27: Boxing maneuver

29: Abhor

33: Feed seed

34: Barbecue leftover

36: Flower part

38: Responsibility

40: Healthy lunch choice

42: Thorny flower

43: Piano piece?

45: Put a counter to zero

47: Gun in the garage

48: Another helping

50: Dear

52: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

53: Top-rated TV series of 1977

54: After-dinner drink

59: Yards of grass

62: Merino mamas

63: Fish sticks?

65: Dark greenish blue

66: Sprightly

67: Your umbrella, perhaps

68: Roof rim

69: Deuce topper

70: Church recess

71: Girls' books hero Nancy
Down
1: PC software

2: Galoot

3: Care

4: Synthetic textile fiber

5: Shade tree

6: Crucifixes

7: Depleted

8: Goes for

9: More constant

10: Joseph had one of many colors

11: Shrek, e.g.

12: Magician's prop

15: Compares prices

21: Confront

23: Drinks like a dog

25: Resistance units

27: Pigeons' house

28: Freeway divisions

29: Strikes from a proof

30: Segments of history

31: Golfer's garb, e.g.

32: Stand for a portrait

35: Minstrel poet

37: Impose, as a tax

39: Church storehouse

41: Art ___

44: Rioter's illegal take

46: Wrench, e.g.

49: Semimonthly tides

51: Said

53: Rod companions

54: Pt. of USDA

55: Large pitcher

56: Marginally sufficient

57: Body of an organism

58: A pink one means trouble

60: Center of a cathedral

61: Did in, old-style

64: Attend




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