Crossword for Wed, 27/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Blue or potato follower

5: Final prelim

9: Meat case selection

14: Roll call response

15: Kind of acid

16: Cafeteria customer

17: Hard white china

19: Valuable find

20: Partner

21: Undercover worker

23: Wedding page word

24: One way to travel

26: Shoe parts

28: One who knows the score

33: Glass squares

34: Golf range surface

35: Tag players

38: Fluish feeling

39: Barely flows

41: They may be wild or rolled

43: PC bailout

44: Put up preserves

45: Duds

46: They may be tugged at

50: Alternative to 'page down'

53: Withered

54: Excessively

55: Supplied

57: Traders

62: Short stanza concluding a poem

64: Overjoyed

66: Think tank output

67: Greek letter

68: Festive affair

69: Bridge position

70: '___ there, done that'

71: Harbinger
Down
1: Stylish

2: Long lunch?

3: Hulks pump it

4: Cons' confines

5: Buddha's teachings

6: Hot

7: Hour div.

8: Keeps cold

9: How to confirm a password

10: Crew implement

11: Square things

12: Cut off

13: Giant sequoias, e.g.

18: Does a pre-laundry chore

22: Light golf strokes

25: Sighs, perhaps

27: A ___ (deductive)

28: Resort hotel

29: Summon with a beeper

30: Responsibility

31: Bounce back again

32: Tree fluid

36: Mountain lake

37: Kind of beetle

39: Actor's minimum wage

40: Van Gogh's love offering

42: Methodology (abbr.)

45: Geometry calculations

47: Full of mischief

48: Give a Valium to, e.g.

49: Mining tool

50: Oktoberfest souvenir

51: Residential building

52: Canine name

56: Very little bit

58: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

59: Cheese with a red coat

60: Get all stirred up

61: Read quickly

63: Feed seed

65: Garden tool




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