Crossword for Sun, 28/May/2023

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Across
1: Stops bleeding

6: Solicit alms

9: Spill the beans

13: Bunch of bunk

14: Fireman's tool

15: Melodramatic

16: Woodworking tools

17: Apiary occupant

18: Sheriff's band

19: NASA activity

21: Hidden drug supplies

23: Senate vote

24: Fen fuel

25: Highlander's cap

28: Little bit

30: They may be upper or lower

35: Holiday nights

37: Clamors

39: Wrap in the kitchen

40: Crumbly clay mixture

41: Kiosk

43: Cause of a Macy's riot?

44: Embroidery loop

46: Turn on an axis

47: Fortune

48: Act of disrespect

50: Drainpipe bend

52: Easter preceder?

53: Sort of blue

55: Tree fluid

57: Mel Blanc's is 'That's all, folks'

61: Studies carefully, in a way

65: One way to cook steak

66: Electrify

68: Brown pigment

69: Kind of nut in 'South Pacific'

70: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

71: Each's partner

72: Train for a title fight

73: Came across

74: Battle of the ___
Down
1: Burn to a crisp

2: Prospector's bonanza

3: Primordial sludge

4: Itty-bitty

5: Way to do it

6: ' ___, It's Cold Outside'

7: Devon river

8: They honk and hiss

9: Spooks' sounds

10: Eyelid attachment

11: Church recess

12: Tournament advantages

15: Torrents

20: Midnight trips to the fridge

22: Check

24: Forfeit

25: Office aides

26: Profit

27: Word of thanks

29: Small birds

31: Imitate Popeye

32: It's a drag on a gown

33: Hunt holler

34: Betray contempt

36: Trudge, as through sludge

38: Pronounce indistinctly

42: Tenant's contract

45: Slavery

49: Dance like Hines

51: Analyzes grammatically

54: Big hole in the ground

56: Rub the wrong way

57: Reduces in intensity

58: Warm up, for short

59: Greek letter

60: Hippodrome section

61: Monthly payment, for many

62: High point

63: Like some straits

64: Simon ___

67: Deep distress




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