Crossword for Thu, 25/Jul/2024

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Across
1: Gaping mouth

4: Buddhist blessers

9: These can be checkered

14: Some gametes

15: Exchange high-fives, e.g.

16: Debut

17: Cut off

18: Ill humored

20: LSD, informally

22: Oil source

23: Fifth calendar page

24: Put a new price on, say

26: Get back

28: Saddle adjuncts

31: Cell phone alternative

34: Scrabble letter

35: Stanley, for one

37: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

38: Minority opinion

41: Alone, when preceded by 'by'

43: Mont Blanc, for one

44: Zoological duct

45: Old-time telephone feature

46: Point the finger at

48: Divers' attire

52: Root vegetable

55: Grain fungus

56: Marsh

57: Prepare eggs, in a way

60: Cocoon's contents

61: Her identity may be unknown to an adoptee

64: Liable

65: Eager, to the max

66: Reminiscent of an oboe

67: Wedding page word

68: Exclude

69: Remove graphite or graffiti

70: Include
Down
1: Cheek teeth

2: Long-legged shore bird

3: American elk

4: Ran in front

5: World War II partnership

6: Boiled meal

7: Knot-tying sites

8: Inscribed pillar

9: Humdinger

10: Lack of energy

11: Wrestling hold

12: Deuce topper

13: Divot material

19: Actress Ryan

21: Scoots

25: Was down a lot, maybe

27: Mollify

29: Arm bone

30: Spot and Fido

32: Slim swimmer

33: KO caller

35: Morse's creation

36: Single thing

38: Smidge

39: Hardly hale

40: Unit of finger food

42: Eat soup loudly

47: 'Om,' e.g.

48: Toothpaste catchword

49: Creature in a Tennessee Williams title

50: One-upped

51: Said

53: Mao follower?

54: Place for a summer home

56: Military band flute

58: Flightless bird

59: Crimsons

61: Good, ironically, in slang

62: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

63: 'The Catcher in the ___'




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