Crossword for Sun, 23/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Paul's ox

5: Trudge through melting snow

10: Game on horseback

14: Gives the heave-ho

15: One from the heart

16: Declare openly

17: Small rabbit

19: Drudge

20: Prepare for knighthood

21: Leave in, to an editor

22: Cumbersome boats

23: Enjoy a bed

25: Test answers in blue books

27: Protective trench

29: Gate holder

32: Merino mamas

35: Coffin contents

39: 'Caught you!'

40: Electrical unit

41: Solemn

42: Highlander's cap

43: Apprehend

44: No great shake

45: Soaks, as flax

46: Gaze fixedly

48: Roll call response

50: Brazilian dances

54: Flat rates?

57: Vote off the island

59: Spoken

61: Summer ermine

63: Determination

64: Unwillingness

66: Tape spool

67: Debut

68: Old Italian money

69: Life of Riley

70: Checked out

71: Read quickly
Down
1: Support

2: Synaptic transmitters

3: Kind of nut in 'South Pacific'

4: Values highly

5: Japanese honorific

6: Subdivision divisions

7: Speak formally

8: Filthy abodes

9: Cuts short

10: Melonlike fruit

11: Exaggerate

12: 'Get a load of that!'

13: Has made the last payment on

18: Table spread

24: An expectant father, e.g.

26: Microbrewery offerings

28: Ripped apart

30: On-line discussion

31: Amateur radio broadcasters

32: Geological time periods

33: 'I beg your pardon?'

34: Where some diplomats work

36: Backboard attachment

37: Eeyore's friend

38: Less doubtful

41: Tobacco pipe part

45: Like some lake cabins

47: Crib toy

49: Unused portion

51: Kind of acid

52: Combat site

53: Popeye's buddies

55: Gin companion

56: Pelvic bones

57: Shrek, e.g.

58: Ammonia compound

60: Trout tempter

62: Adolescent

65: Massachusetts cape




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