Crossword for Thu, 21/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Sound of a hard smack

5: Rain cats and dogs

9: Won every game

14: Where the heart is, proverbially

15: Ancient character

16: Tough nut to crack

17: Full of pep

19: Right-hand page

20: Nosy Parkers

21: Bishop Desmond

23: Wharf pest

24: Kind of talk

26: Winces

28: Severe

32: Obligation

33: Niagara Falls sound

34: Aromatic ointment

36: Run gracefully

39: Knock preceder

40: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

41: Well-ventilated

42: Spritzes

43: Robin of Sherwood

44: Family follower?

45: Dirty look

47: Tapster

50: Extra minute?

53: Campaigned for office

54: Choose

55: 'Terrible' phase

57: Jelly ingredient

62: Synagogue scroll

64: Self-restrained

66: Saw

67: Type of arch

68: Freshly

69: Ostracized person

70: Word in seven Hope titles

71: CEO, CFO, etc.

Down
1: Part of Miss Muffet's meal

2: Use a whetstone

3: Last word in prayer

4: Sprightly

5: Car radio button

6: Away from the office

7: Single thing

8: Happen again

9: Christmas purchase, perhaps

10: Deep distress

11: Desk

12: 'Loves me not' unit

13: Competes in a sulky race

18: Intervals

22: One of the Roosevelts

25: Mottled mare

27: Monastery resident

28: Cooked sufficiently

29: Jalopy

30: Gotten out of bed

31: Chocolate substitute

33: Brutally frank

35: Noted Nehi drinker of TV

37: Warm up, for short

38: Spot

40: Tiny carnivore

46: Ultimatum word

48: Emulated Lil Wayne

49: Joint with a cap

50: Add up

51: Lyric poem

52: Spinning part

56: Utah's state flower

58: Study in a panic

59: Chinese dynasty

60: Short newspaper piece

61: 'To Renew America' writer Gingrich

63: Historical period

65: ___ culpa





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