Crossword for Wed, 26/Oct/2022

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Across
1: 'Ix-nay'

5: Flat-topped hills

10: Ball of yarn

14: Mocked by imitating

15: Rust, tarnish, or laughing gas

16: Busy place

17: Was a comfort (to)

19: Enthusiastic

20: Passes, as a law

21: Easter colors

23: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

24: Parlor piece

26: MAKEUP

31: Touch on the shoulders with a sword

34: Goof up

35: After-class aide

36: Hardly hale

37: Not right

38: Dance part?

40: Original sinner

41: Muddle

43: Deep distress

44: Fifth calendar page

45: Pride of the kitchen, perhaps

49: Example of poor penmanship

50: Given to prying (Var.)

55: Legal right to property

58: Primitive drive

59: Look of wonder

60: Like some circumstances

63: Pretty good

64: Choose the window instead of the aisle?

65: Very top

66: Withered

67: Stitched

68: Get better
Down
1: Dubbed

2: Have one's say

3: Kind of code or colony

4: Undemocratic law

5: Witticisms

6: Devon river

7: Churchill's title

8: Experts

9: Give a Valium to, e.g.

10: Stately French residence

11: Still in play

12: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

13: Ties the knot

18: Kind of beetle

22: Dividing membranes

24: Lowly laborer

25: Van Gogh's love offering

27: KO caller

28: Short newspaper piece

29: Stellar phenomenon

30: Deuce topper

31: Frisbee, for one

32: Arm bone

33: Spill the beans

37: Gold dealer's unit

38: 'Far out!'

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

42: Lens type

43: Internet address letters

46: Removes, as a record

47: Tell Mom

48: Make a sweater, perhaps

51: Religious belief that involves sorcery

52: As of

53: Plant problem

54: Alpine aria

55: Qualities of the conceited

56: Rice drink

57: Undemocratic leader

58: Spun yarns

61: Use the oars

62: Musclebound brute




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