Crossword for Tue, 3/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Read quickly

5: Memory morsel

9: Sole projection

14: Old wives' tales and such

15: Many millennia

16: Reddish orange dye

17: Dollar competitor

18: Didn't come home standing up

19: Tall story?

20: They're hot

23: Man in a lodge

24: Source of ancient depictions of kings and gods

25: Turns in

27: Cafeteria customer

30: Fen fuel

31: Scrooge's exclamation

34: Measure off a distance, perhaps

36: Stag or bull, e.g.

39: Bug-eyed

41: Kind of code or colony

42: Funeral stand

43: Ripped apart

44: Soaks, as flax

45: Wedding page word

46: Bombay garment

48: Safety device

52: Little Leaguer, e.g.

55: Leave yon stage

59: '___ Town'

60: Fashionable doggy?

63: Speak formally

65: Word with beer or cellar

66: Jambalaya grain

67: Spikes

68: Proofreader's mark

69: Wapiti

70: Hand cream ingredient

71: Kane's dying thought

72: Minus
Down
1: Generous helpings

2: Desire wrongfully

3: Come to mind

4: Get cozy

5: Most immoral

6: Loud utterance

7: Slave away

8: Terminator

9: Squeaky-clean

10: '___ me think about it'

11: Extend hospitality, in a way

12: Old-womanish

13: Bulletin board affixers

21: Red or Yellow

22: Run off

26: Metric foot

28: Olympic weapon

29: Talks wildly

31: Take one's cuts

32: In the past

33: Formidable contest

35: Section in the credits

37: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

38: Palindromic preposition

40: Biting midge

41: Buttinsky

47: Give a makeup exam to

49: Caught some z's

50: Fireman's tool

51: Oceanic bird

52: Forms a puddle

53: Of the countryside

54: Geeks

56: Handy

57: Guitar parts

58: Head lock

61: Caroling song

62: Loser to Clinton in '96

64: Player's peg




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