Crossword for Thu, 28/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Practical jokes

5: Unruly crowds

9: Crescent-shaped mountain range

13: Table spread

14: English county

15: Answering-machine sound

16: Refusing to face reality

18: Kaput

19: Jazz instrument, briefly

20: 4-H member, usually

21: Impose, as a tax

22: They can be heard in New York City

26: All too willing

28: Well-behaved

29: List abbr.

31: Boiled meal

32: Get ready for a fight

33: Father Time feature

35: 'We hold ___ truths...'

38: St. Louis gridder

39: Swallow greedily

41: 'Not only that ...'

42: Pizzeria purchase

44: Promise

45: German shepherd, for one

46: Business letter addressees

48: Block up

49: Roll call response

50: Light detector

52: Figured out, as secret writing

54: Trout tempter

55: Ebay posting

57: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

58: Shiite leader

59: Universal

64: ___-tat

65: Ostrich look-alikes

66: Colorful parrot

67: Card pack foursome

68: Unload, as stock

69: Farm team neckwear
Down
1: Creator of the universe

2: Tap output

3: Hairdo helper

4: Pie-eyed

5: Electrical unit

6: Sty cry

7: Plait

8: Once in a while

9: Stamp out

10: Cool in a crisis

11: Rub the wrong way

12: Nimble

14: 'Sweet' age

17: Japanese honorific

22: Culture media

23: Reef material

24: Express sympathy

25: Does' mates

27: More adorable

30: Three, so it's said

33: Buys at the bar

34: Hate the thought of

36: Dagwood's 'SKNXX-X'

37: Nosed (out)

40: Reproductive cells

43: Movie houses

47: Recovers from a binge (with 'up')

49: Sermon

50: 'Poison' shrub

51: Nouveau ___

53: Debate side

54: Former capital of Italy?

56: Swordfight

60: ___ de mer (seasickness)

61: Pigeon patter

62: First zoo?

63: Old soap ingredient




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