Crossword for Thu, 22/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Memory morsel

5: Identical

9: Illegal payoff

14: Parade spoiler

15: After-school group

16: Eagle's nest

17: Overwhelmed

18: Mercury or Saturn

19: Insinuatingly spoken

20: College statistic

23: Tributes in verse

24: Horse color

25: Internet address letters

27: Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys?

34: Big Mama Thornton's bag?

35: Thorny flower

36: White Stripes, for one

37: Get all stirred up

38: Short partner?

40: Word before irons or chains

41: Fall off, as the tide

42: Colored

43: Exodus plague

44: Befuddle

48: Senate vote

49: Sesame starter?

50: Behaves

53: Bottle gourds

59: Anger

61: Chomp

62: Roof rim

63: Female demon

64: Ammonia compound

65: Rowing team, e.g.

66: Blueprints, briefly

67: Like lemons

68: Little gull

Down
1: Scottish hillside

2: Open wide

3: Hippodrome section

4: Candidate with backing, say

5: Graduated

6: Barnard graduate

7: Remote possibility?

8: Black, to a bard

9: Brake neighbor

10: Les Brown's Band of ___

11: Like the Atacama

12: Bona ___

13: Golf ball pegs

21: Subdivision divisions

22: Plot device

26: Deep distress

27: Cover story

28: Future tulips

29: Doctrine of belief

30: Water temperature 'gauge'

31: Preceder of box or light, in slang

32: Sudden forceful flow

33: Corn-growing regions

34: Produced offspring

38: 'Poison' shrub

39: Where to find a browser

40: Cut crosswise

42: Garden tool

43: Leaping insect

45: Of the gallbladder

46: Yachtsman or hat

47: Cheerful

50: Piercing tools

51: Renege, slangily, with 'out'

52: Unresisting

54: Share a border with

55: Former capital of Italy?

56: Fabled race loser

57: At all

58: Stitched

60: Suffers from





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