Crossword for Tue, 22/Dec/2020

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Across
1: PC bailout

4: Four-poster, e.g.

7: Diner desserts

11: ___-tat

12: Mountain lion

13: Give permission for

15: Suffering from 'I' strain?

17: Academy frosh

18: Winter ailment

19: Showed affection to, as one's dog

21: Hansom vehicle

22: Go down

23: Litigates

24: Station

27: Massachusetts cape

28: Steinway output

30: Potpourri

33: Not fooled by

36: Sudden attack

38: Like a rickey

39: 'What have we here?'

40: Like a dangerous wire

41: Home ___

43: Nimble-fingered

45: Insignificant upturn

46: Glossy fabrics

48: Piano man Charles

50: Quakers or Shakers

51: Created a web site?

53: 28,800 seconds before midnight

56: Brake neighbor

58: Animosity

60: Cry over spilled milk

61: Cover story

64: Heated exchange of views

66: Down-filled comforter

67: Naval post?

68: To-do list item

69: Computer capacity, for short

70: Spot

71: Get nosy
Down
1: High-ranking Boy Scout

2: Porter's beer

3: Siamese or Persian

4: Grand Canyon feature

5: Puts out

6: Carp cousin

7: Fare for the toothless

8: Hardly hale

9: Like the votes of a college

10: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

11: Whistle-blowers, of a sort

12: False start?

14: Where to find a browser

16: ___ facto

20: Printer spec.

25: Loutish fellow

26: Socially exclusive

27: Prairie wolf

28: Magic show exclamation

29: Bombay garment

30: Trite

31: Tells a whopper

32: Like a good Texas hold 'em player

34: Acknowledges silently

35: Pooh's middle name?

37: 'Sure thing'

42: Personal quirk

44: Most faithful

47: Utmost

49: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

51: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

52: Genre of novels and essays

53: Mendicant

54: Short-winded

55: Humble

56: Wander (about)

57: Grad

59: Very top

62: Solicit alms

63: Tag players

65: Uploading initials




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