Crossword for Thu, 25/May/2023

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Across
1: Coagulate

5: Bums change

9: Go over

12: Bounder

13: Fielder's faux pas

15: Starch from palms

16: Affirm

18: Tartan wraparound

19: Moisten

20: Mocked by imitating

21: Source of ancient depictions of kings and gods

23: Kane's dying thought

24: 'Flee, feline!'

25: Hung loosely

28: Hindquarters

32: Indian music

33: Wise man

34: Logical flaw

35: Nearly closed

36: More ticked

37: It has bars for tars

38: 'Total Recall' planet

39: Boulevard liners

40: Not fooled by

41: Evaluates

43: 'Sincerely,' and others

45: What picky people pick

46: Long haul

47: Orb

50: '___ Came You' (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)

51: Internet address letters

54: Brownie pieces

55: Shabby

58: 'Them' insects

59: Shaking of the earth

60: Family follower?

61: Shortchange

62: Trials and tribulations

63: Go one's way
Down
1: Where something may stick

2: Give the slip to

3: Vote off the island

4: Player's peg

5: Paged

6: Proved to be human

7: Diploma holder

8: Barfly

9: Follow

10: Get an eyeful

11: Flower sites

14: Lifeguard

15: Artist's supply

17: Apt rhyme for 'dale'

22: Summer coat?

23: Boondocks quality

24: Wise people

25: Type of queen

26: Indian royals

27: Culture media

28: Out of ___ way (safe)

29: They may be locked or blown

30: Ruling class

31: Western lilies

33: Cobbler's supply

36: Sonnet sections

42: Churchill's title

43: Whitens, in a coffee shop

44: Impart temporarily

46: 'We hold ___ truths...'

47: Glitch

48: Small and insignificant

49: URL opener

50: Group of three

51: Hard or soft addition

52: Small songbird

53: Exemplar of rapid growth

56: Shape with cutting blows

57: Incidentally, in Netspeak




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