Crossword for Fri, 27/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Accumulate

6: Internet address letters

9: Very little bit

13: Cunning

14: Chimpanzee's hoot

15: NASA project

16: Adjective for some statesmen

17: Deep distress

18: Fearful request by the IRS, to some

19: Vest's lack

21: Generosity

23: Soup veggie

24: Multigenerational story

25: School of whales

28: Hang around

30: Chest decorations

35: Secondhand

37: Possessing peepers

39: Ship's positioning system

40: Get all stirred up

41: Like Fran Drescher's voice

43: Former capital of Italy?

44: Frame

46: Gardener's coil

47: Be without

48: Removes, as a record

50: Flightless bird

52: Like a wallflower

53: Wander

55: Portable bed

57: Alexander Calder art form

61: Multitudes

65: Corbeled-out window

66: 'The Catcher in the ___'

68: Assemblage of people

69: Things to put out

70: Number of geese a-laying

71: Rose oil

72: Have a fling?

73: Choose

74: Shabby-looking
Down
1: Reason and Enlightenment

2: Think (over)

3: Subordinate staffer

4: Enjoy a bed

5: Aces, e.g.

6: Bedazzles

7: Seek favor with

8: Sassy youth

9: Pharmacy buy

10: Went by horseback

11: Sacred bird of Egypt

12: Uses a bookie

15: Piece of land

20: Word with worm or moth

22: Point, as a rifle

24: Blight on the landscape

25: Prize money

26: Basketry twig

27: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

29: Indian maid

31: Raggedy Ann or Raggedy Andy

32: Diva's repertoire

33: Hardwood tree

34: Winding

36: '___ ex machina'

38: Recipe guesstimate

42: Bloodsucker

45: Dangers

49: Helios, to the Romans

51: Vessels in trunks

54: Opposite of recto

56: Flourless cake

57: Warm and cuddly

58: Group of three

59: Ditties

60: Quilting parties

61: Actual wording

62: Memo

63: Egg on

64: Nimble

67: Shrill bark




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