Crossword for Mon, 26/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Congressional group

5: Job extras

10: Imitate Popeye

14: Frost's frost

15: Jungle vine

16: Mercury or Saturn

17: In the thick of

18: 'Ciao' in Chihuahua

19: Lingerie buys

20: This puzzle's theme

22: Like a dangerous wire

23: '___ Town'

24: Storklike waders

26: Additional data on a news story

30: Tickled-pink feeling

32: Three squares

33: Overthrown, overcome, or helpless

38: Date source

39: It's a shore thing

40: LSD, informally

41: Most reliable

43: Spirited horse

44: 'Them' insects

45: Elegant and fashionable

46: Mirthless

50: Haunting sound

51: Filthy deposit

52: Finish that should be long and complex

59: Miles per hour, e.g.

60: Leaves the groom at the altar

61: Flightless bird

62: Short newspaper piece

63: More than sufficient

64: Charged particles

65: City near Scottsdale

66: Put a counter to zero

67: Shower affection (on)

Down
1: Pitt of 'Ocean's Twelve'

2: Margarita flavoring

3: Fail to include

4: Give up

5: Calamity

6: Kind of down

7: Parade spoiler

8: Half hitch, e.g.

9: Most impudent

10: Temple figure

11: Distinctive atmospheres

12: Gaze fixedly

13: Gets ready to be shot

21: Goes bad

25: Wager

26: Baseball VIPs

27: Fen fuel

28: Either of the racing Earnhardts

29: ___ mater

30: Ganja

31: Popular ABC adventure series

33: Browning of pages of verse, for example

34: ___-tat

35: Card pack foursome

36: Makes a sheepshank

37: Small whirlpool

39: Mercury ore

42: Block up

43: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

45: Old undergarment

46: Cotton fabric

47: Speak formally

48: Minstrels' instruments

49: Plant problem

50: Ball bigwig

53: Fortune companion

54: Rewards for waiting?

55: Like the Atacama

56: 'Flee, fly!'

57: Camp sight

58: Life of Riley





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