Crossword for Sun, 24/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Soap soap

6: Welcoming gift on Maui

9: Lake-bottom navigation impediments

14: Super stars

15: 'Not only that ...'

16: Insect stages

17: Some inner city property owners

19: Plant problem

20: Building wing

21: Summon with a beeper

22: Summer coat?

23: Golf ball pegs

25: Candid

30: Online VIP

32: More speculative

33: Seafood choice

37: Small one

38: Input for a recorder

42: Sternward

43: Whoop it up

44: Refrigerator part

47: Center of activity

51: Leeways

55: American, in Ireland

56: Diddly-squat

57: Neural fiber

59: Upsilon follower

60: Tall story?

63: Yardstick

65: Oil source

66: Ring toss item?

67: Conducting rod?

68: Casts a spell upon

69: Tag players

70: Open to question

Down
1: Enlarged map segments

2: Shot seen at Wimbledon

3: Seeds-to-be

4: St. Louis gridder

5: Puppy's plaint

6: Slowly, to Solti

7: Terminator

8: Passports, e.g (abbr.)

9: Medieval weapons

10: Pest

11: Musclebound brute

12: Leg, to Legs Diamond

13: Red or Yellow

18: Loutish fellow

22: Parchment?

24: Listened to the bears

26: Head lock

27: Mother's Day purchase

28: Roll call response

29: 'Don't give up!'

31: Polynesian paste

34: Located in the north

35: Pooh-pooh

36: Mai ___

38: Curly coif

39: Elec., e.g.

40: Slim swimmer

41: 'Aeneid' city

42: It may be passed on the Hill

45: Not thinking well

46: Costs

48: Per follower

49: Release, in a way

50: Without much flesh

52: Diamond weight

53: Quits the stage

54: Barfly

58: Beaks

60: Can opener?

61: Pooh's middle name?

62: Levy

63: McBride of 'Boston Public'

64: Sound of a fan





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