Crossword for Wed, 26/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Turn on the waterworks

4: Love handles

8: Quick curtsies

12: 50-Down feature

13: 'No problem!'

14: Distinctive atmospheres

16: Right, on the map

17: Young'un

18: Prevent, with 'off'

19: Original sinner

20: Four-poster, e.g.

21: Pose for a pic

23: Just released

24: Part of MGM

26: Nov. 11 honoree

28: Hole punch

30: Undercover worker

32: URL opener

36: Grocery shopper's reference

39: Burn soother

41: 'Far out!'

42: Mont Blanc, for one

43: Ropes with weights attached

45: Slimy stuff

46: Exigency

48: The death of the party?

49: Shaker contents

50: Carp cousin

51: '___ appétit!'

52: McBride of 'Boston Public'

54: Vote to kill

56: Feeling expressed in many a Woody Allen film

60: What golfers try to break

63: Ran in front

65: Brown paper container

67: Piano man Charles

68: Love, Italian style

70: Takes advantage of

72: Wine of Bordeaux

73: Less colorful

74: Gloomy atmosphere

75: Subordinate staffer

76: Weight

77: Wooden pins

78: Veneer layer
Down
1: Debonair

2: First symptoms

3: Wager

4: Lavish party

5: Given the ax, with “off”

6: 'Shoot'

7: Tournament advantages

8: Tend to the turkey

9: Away from the office

10: Breakfast grain

11: Conserve

12: Judge

15: Stitch up

20: Curtain call response

22: Batman foe Poison ___

25: Wharf pest

27: Pot ingredient?

29: Bio class setting

30: Ancient lawgiver

31: Fruit cocktail fruit

33: Roman wrap

34: Wrench, e.g.

35: Parcel of land

36: Bring in

37: Some intestinal divisions

38: What some writers work on

40: Gray wolf

44: Brief time, briefly

47: Remote room?

49: Confession topic

51: Tournament exemption

53: Crone

55: Tornado siren, e.g.

57: Holy chalice of legend

58: Like the beach

59: Youngster

60: Fare for the toothless

61: Indian housemaid

62: Butler, for Gable

64: Crummy place

65: Ice mass

66: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

69: KO caller

71: Take to court

72: Word before sheet or session




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