Crossword for Sun, 22/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Get the picture

6: Whiskey measure

10: Besides

14: Coin of Nepal or Pakistan

15: Gondolier gear

16: Rendered, as a compliment

17: Nice thoughts

18: Curb

19: Not fooled by

20: The James-Younger gang, e.g.

22: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

23: Little one

24: Registers formally

26: Toast topper

30: More ticked

32: Almost eternity

33: Cyclotron bit

34: Connery and Moore, e.g.

38: Counterfeit coin

39: Devious

40: It may be Olympic-sized

41: Quite high

43: Hardly hard-nosed

44: Angle symbol

45: Less likely to offend

47: Car radio button

48: Son of Odin

51: Afternoon brew

52: ___ fixe

53: Extra

60: False witness

61: Have an opinion

62: Merchandising scheme, briefly

63: Add-on for Congo

64: Story by Chaucer

65: Not a spendthrift

66: Went to court

67: Didn't come home standing up

68: Animal with twisted horns

Down
1: Power network

2: Obnoxious

3: Fossey's focus

4: Leak slowly

5: They were spent in Spain

6: Jack of nursery rhyme

7: Broke ground, perhaps

8: Potpourri

9: More in need of a chill pill

10: Certain punctuation mark

11: Knight stick

12: Indian lute

13: Tabu emissions

21: Abacus part

25: Lincoln loc.

26: Back talk

27: Hit with hailstones

28: Bounder

29: Gave rise to

30: From the nearest star

31: Figurine mineral

33: Sea spot

35: Some votes

36: Shower affection (on)

37: Trellis piece

42: Chart shape

44: Gad about

46: Skilled trades

47: Furry friend

48: Buffalo gridders

49: 'Farewell, François!'

50: Tenant's contract

51: Like many a bathroom floor

54: Trade agreement

55: Home of heroes?

56: Spoken

57: Stellar phenomenon

58: Last word in prayer

59: Jack of 'Hawaii Five-O'





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