Crossword for Wed, 23/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Ball of yarn

5: Uptight, slangily

9: Glee

14: Golfer Irwin

15: Loser to Clinton in '96

16: Be taken with

17: Forsaken

19: Stake

20: Coin producer

21: Tenets

22: Goalie's protection

23: Gold medal-winning

26: Coal carriers

27: Deep stupor

29: Mao follower?

32: Dispirited types

35: Down-to-earth

36: She's a deer

37: Spartan

39: Puppies, at times

42: Blubber

43: Dumbo's 'wings'

45: Topples from power

46: PC bailout

47: Teapot dwellers?

49: Give attention

51: Massachusetts governor Romney

52: Zip

55: Squirreled-away snack

57: Purify

59: Stuffs to the gills

60: Thin smoke wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco

63: Number on a tag

64: Where cookies might crumble

65: Took to the air

66: The Amish, the Shakers, et al.

67: Not the original color

68: Bolts down
Down
1: Tourney winner

2: Lips, in Latin

3: Animal with twisted horns

4: Departed

5: Worshiper

6: Dauphin's denial

7: Tap output

8: Ran in front

9: Computer user's timesavers

10: Had an off day?

11: Pull-over sites

12: Group of three

13: Gropes for words

18: Cheapen

21: Heartburn cause, often

24: Real riot

25: Water temperature 'gauge'

27: Court divider

28: Third-generation Japanese-American

30: Put into piles

31: GI's diner

32: Pepper spray alternative

33: Communally owned

34: Out of touch with reality

38: Oboes, e.g.

40: Bowl thrower

41: Boil fluid

44: LP measure

47: Past and present

48: Threadlike part

50: At attention

52: Country estate

53: Bay

54: Asks for catnip

55: Ancient Egyptian emblems

56: Devil-may-___

58: Military band flute

60: Massachusetts cape

61: Batman foe Poison ___

62: 'Golly!'




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