Crossword for Sat, 27/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Verbal zinger

4: Supplied

7: Digs of twigs

11: Measure off a distance, perhaps

12: Spelunker's milieu

13: Be in store for

15: Before birth

17: Greeting on meeting

18: Contend

19: Head circlet

21: President pro ___

22: Feed one's face

23: Spy spying on a spy

24: Door clasp

27: Attend

28: Put into ascending order

30: Assist larcenously

33: 'Flee, fly!'

36: Wins at chess

38: Mountain lion

39: Gallery objects

40: In-box item

41: Lionel Richie hit

43: Unused portion

45: Forepart of a boat

46: Earn a smiley face

48: Balaam's mount

50: Word before ant or brat

51: Buddhist leader

53: '___ Loves You'

56: Choose

58: Temper tantrums

60: 'Hee ___'

61: Savoir-faire

64: Exaggerate

66: Rub and rub and rub

67: Cons' confines

68: State peremptorily

69: Joint with a cap

70: Go down

71: Four-poster, e.g.
Down
1: Excessive enthusiasm

2: Group of eight

3: Player's peg

4: '___ Attraction'

5: Circumvent

6: Proofreader's mark

7: 'Uh uh'

8: She may get sheared

9: Naturally occurring potassium nitrate

10: Scrabble letter

11: Lay macadam

12: Tippy boats

14: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

16: Application form blank

20: Electrical unit

25: Get ready for a fight

26: Impresses, as on the mind

27: Less fresh

28: Tipplers

29: Test-driver's car

30: Liable

31: Baby-feeding finale

32: Copying of a role model

34: Fabled race loser

35: Unwrought iron

37: Madame of the sty

42: Thanksgiving staple

44: Circus performers

47: Methodology (abbr.)

49: Back talk

51: Embankment down by the riverside

52: About

53: Barber's work

54: Despised

55: Large pitcher

56: Photo ___ (campaign events)

57: Small indentation

59: Police

62: Take to court

63: Palindromic preposition

65: Check




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