Crossword for Wed, 24/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Splatter catcher

6: Nov. 11 honoree

9: Course of action

13: Craft entered gingerly

14: Bluto's assent

15: Pizzeria purchase

16: Intense

17: Half a score

18: Merits, as compensation

19: Takes offense at

21: Parlor pieces

23: Red or Yellow

24: Place for the catbird?

25: 'You ___ here'

28: Get ready to shine?

30: Meal

35: 'Rats!'

37: Meadows

39: Knuckle rapper

40: Pretentious

41: Garments worn by the Ganges

43: Body of an organism

44: Salon orders

46: River residue

47: Leveling wedge

48: Assignations

50: Some votes

52: Pharaohs' symbol of power

53: 'You ___?' (Lurch's query)

55: '___ me think about it'

57: Northwest, for one

61: Building group

65: 'The Gift of the Magi' device

66: Musclebound brute

68: Frighten

69: Devout

70: Cygnet's mother

71: Kind of down

72: Took charge of the karaoke machine

73: Picked up a lap

74: Surveil, with 'out'
Down
1: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

2: Pepper spray alternative

3: Responsibility

4: Ewes' milieu

5: More astute

6: Fermenting tanks

7: Spot

8: On pins and needles

9: City map

10: Old Italian money

11: Clearasil target

12: Promontory

15: Volleyball player

20: Top hat accompaniment

22: Van Gogh's love offering

24: Very hot

25: Rewrite for a film, say

26: Less common

27: Ledger transaction

29: Geographical seven

31: Shrewd storybook cat

32: Maui greeting

33: Convoy vehicles

34: Lady's companion

36: Workout sites

38: Farm tower

42: Inscribed pillar

45: Gets off the beaten path

49: Droop

51: Taste and smell

54: Semimonthly tides

56: Unspoken

57: Fivesome on a five

58: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

59: Any day now

60: Tight-fitting

61: Camp sight

62: Zippo

63: Long haul

64: Withered

67: Soup veggie




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