Crossword for Mon, 25/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Pitch indicator

5: Approaching

9: Throbbing

13: All-conquering emotion

14: Less friendly

16: Shower affection (on)

17: Card pack foursome

18: ___ firma

19: Word of frustration

20: Calendar page

22: Butlers' prompts

24: Multitude

26: Lighted sign contents

27: Small birds

31: Bullriding venue

34: Ossuary

35: Supports, with 'up'

37: Future tulips

39: Disposes (of)

41: Uses elbow grease

43: Cat call

44: Correct copy

46: Puts the kibosh on

48: ___ culpa

49: 'Ciao' in Chihuahua

51: Most pricey

53: Commercial endorsement

55: Extended family

56: Ability without difficulty

61: Minstrels' instruments

64: Lay macadam

65: Detach, in a way

67: Zippo

68: Cat's eye, sometimes

69: What a gardener might do

70: Where something may stick

71: They get into sushi

72: Thus

73: Mormon Tabernacle Choir number
Down
1: Mum one

2: Plumb crazy

3: Fair

4: Rankle

5: Louse egg

6: Chilled, in a way

7: Copter's cousin

8: Egret's cousin

9: Postscript, e.g.

10: Brat's stocking stuffer

11: WWW programming code

12: Deep desires

15: Less common

21: Glissando instrument

23: ___ tube

25: Dessert wine

27: 'Natch!'

28: 'Jump, Jive, an' Wail' composer/bandleader Louis

29: Courts

30: Turners at cookouts

32: Holmes mantra, and a hint to this puzzle's theme

33: Reed instruments

36: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

38: Smack, as a baseball

40: Fragments

42: What some writers work on

45: Birdbrain

47: Unload, as stock

50: Dawn

52: Potbelly

54: Music category

56: Church recess

57: Either of the racing Earnhardts

58: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

59: Incite

60: Tell all

62: Cheese with a red coat

63: Cut in half, as a log

66: Opposite of paleo-




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