Crossword for Sat, 28/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Prohibition

4: In a competent way

8: Incidentally, in Netspeak

11: All over the place

13: Heartless

15: The death of the party?

16: Final prelim

17: Succulent

18: 100-0, e.g.

19: Works with some yarn

21: Tibias

23: 'Far out!'

25: Read quickly

26: Gorbachev's policy

30: Spasm sound

34: Wharf pest

35: Strikes from a proof

37: Macbeth's title

38: Black, to a bard

40: Official stickers

42: Prefix with European

43: Broadcast

45: Dentist's tool

47: Pester for payment

48: Sweet and sour, e.g.

50: Belfry spots

52: Skin designs, for short

54: Hard or soft addition

55: Sante Fe and Amtrak

60: Ratchet-wheel gizmos

63: Get an eyeful

64: Snobbishly unfriendly

66: Rock, scissors, or paper

67: Litigates

68: Tutu material

69: Soft drink nut

70: Senate vote

71: Property title

72: Used a spade

Down
1: Luxuriate at the beach

2: Last word in prayer

3: Ones whose proposals are seconded

4: It may be passed on the Hill

5: Lingerie buys

6: Succulent

7: Legendary Himalayan creatures

8: Benefit

9: Test choice

10: Spritzes

12: Toys that won't work on calm days

14: Type of mob

15: Trachea branches

20: Storm particles

22: Lure

24: Corn-growing regions

26: Alexander's adjective

27: Lips, in Latin

28: Kane's dying thought

29: Blubbery water

31: It may be burned for light

32: Improper, as influence

33: Unskilled laborers

36: Cat's eye, sometimes

39: Irritates

41: Did in, old-style

44: Pricey

46: Entrechat or jeté

49: Summer ermine

51: Short-sheeting a bed, e.g.

53: 'To your health!'

55: Upbeat

56: Fluish feeling

57: Some intestinal divisions

58: Loser to Clinton in '96

59: Pump part

61: Pip

62: Glitch

65: Supplied





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