Crossword for Sat, 28/Sep/2024

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Across
1: Debatable gift

4: Tickled pink

8: Pronounce indistinctly

12: Portend

13: Roid or road follower

14: Eagle's claw

16: Primordial sludge

17: Object of pagan worship

18: Breathing problem

19: 'Golly!'

20: NPR has none

21: Fail to keep up

23: Pharaohs' symbol of power

24: Online VIP

26: Not very many

28: Supplied

30: Picked up a lap

32: Fortune

36: Large fishhook

39: Spoken

41: Work hard

42: In the manner of

43: 'To your health!'

45: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

46: Turn to gas

48: Unresisting

49: Lacking, along the Loire

50: Words with precedent

51: Good, ironically, in slang

52: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

54: Haunting sound

56: Disconcert

60: Streaking, once

63: Hole punch

65: Brown paper container

67: 'Friendly' pronoun

68: Parting words?

70: Fossey's focus

72: Envelop

73: Ziegfeld offering

74: Bloke

75: Off the mark

76: Sawbucks

77: Boys and girls

78: Method

Down
1: Overly sentimental

2: Woodworking tools

3: Apiary occupant

4: Power network

5: Shavers

6: In the past

7: Farmer's hangout, in a children's song

8: 'All the world's a ___' (Shakespeare)

9: Full circle, on the track

10: Arm bone

11: Lobster and beluga products

12: Cranberry sources

15: Fuzz

20: Musclebound brute

22: Sternward

25: Not right

27: Secretary's stat

29: Fancy affairs

30: Healthy lunch choice

31: Grad

33: Greek letter

34: He has his pride

35: Boulevard liners

36: Shoots the breeze

37: Burn soother

38: ___ accompli

40: ___-tat

44: Condensation phenomenon

47: Bio class setting

49: Turn on the waterworks

51: Curtain call response

53: Crone

55: Desert refuges

57: Well-lit lobbies

58: Disreputable

59: Ballyhoo

60: Not against

61: Assist larcenously

62: Command on a submarine

64: Be without

65: Bracelet bit

66: Ancient Egyptian emblems

69: Merlot cask

71: Upsilon follower

72: Internet address letters





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