Crossword for Sat, 3/Oct/2020

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Across
1: Take off

6: Use a sieve

10: Stage piece

14: Cover story

15: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

16: Upgrade the decor

17: Ones whose proposals are seconded

19: Olympic weapon

20: These can be checkered

21: Court divider

22: Pain in the neck

23: Get a glimpse of

25: Exclude

27: Bulk

30: Van Gogh's love offering

32: '__ Resartus' (Carlyle)

35: Musclebound brute

36: One wearing the apron strings

38: Crystal-lined rock

39: Back of the neck

41: Musical pitches

43: Fries, often

44: Lady's companion

46: Sworn statement

47: Gun in the garage

48: Hotel lobby, sometimes

50: Welcoming gift on Maui

51: Marginally sufficient

52: Gas used in arc welding

54: Words with precedent

56: Statistics

58: Humdinger

60: Gives a thrill to

63: Got grounded?

64: Rapture

67: Narrow margin of victory

68: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

69: 'The Sweetheart of ___ Chi'

70: Catches on to

71: Watermelon beginning

72: Piece with a purpose
Down
1: Japanese honorific

2: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

3: Peru's capital

4: Storklike waders

5: Salon colorings

6: Picked up a lap

7: Hulks pump it

8: Let go

9: Sweet and sour, e.g.

10: Gears up

11: Range of skills in a particular occupation

12: Tributes in verse

13: Browning of pages of verse, for example

18: Width to height ratio, in movie screens

24: Popular search engine

26: Brown paper container

27: Skate's cousin

28: Separated

29: Breakaway

31: Kidney-related

33: More anomalous

34: Superman who was a super man

37: Celebrations

40: Dubai and Abu Dhabi

42: Most withdrawn

45: Wrinkly-faced canine

49: Lightweight road vehicles

51: 'Praying' insect

53: Undeliverable letter, to a postal worker

55: Hairdresser's offering

56: 'Rats!'

57: Burn soother

59: Lay macadam

61: Excavates

62: Body of an organism

65: Male youth

66: Vote to kill




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