Crossword for Wed, 3/Apr/2024

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Across
1: Tree fluid

4: PC software

8: Speed meas.

11: Stage piece

13: Hang like basset hound ears

15: Gondolier gear

16: Elec., e.g.

17: Navigational aid

18: Sufficient space

19: Force units

21: Ones who testify

23: Tired adages

25: Porn

26: Takes for granted

30: Ends

34: Auction offering

35: Dispirited types

37: Gray-barked tree

38: Mercury or Saturn

40: Chopper precursors

42: Memo

43: Motionless

45: Remedies

47: Massachusetts cape

48: Made tracks (toward)

50: Wanders about

52: Some votes in Congress

54: Dawn and on

55: Before birth

60: Ancient Roman gathering place

63: Sources of delight

64: Exorcist's enemy

66: Envelop

67: Ancient Egyptian emblems

68: Metal-shaping tool

69: Farm tower

70: 'The Catcher in the ___'

71: Point out

72: Portable bed
Down
1: Common tater

2: Pretentious

3: Flower displayed at Christmas

4: NPR has none

5: Cattle poker

6: Dixie bread

7: Some afternoon TV shows

8: Night light

9: Parcel of land

10: Gropes for words

12: Nolo contendere and others

14: Merchandising scheme, briefly

15: Little Leaguer, e.g.

20: Splashed through the pool

22: Apply Novocain to

24: Cause of a bad air day

26: Gentle pool sound

27: 66, for one

28: Multigenerational story

29: Truth ___ (interrogation drug)

31: Like Ptolemy's universe

32: Cast member

33: Loses one's coat

36: Ruing the run, perhaps

39: Antiquity

41: Junction

44: Show partiality

46: 'I'm better than you' sort

49: Twosomes

51: Neither wins nor loses

53: Agonizes (over)

55: Nearly closed

56: A bit too interested

57: A or B, in personalities

58: Indian housemaid

59: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

61: Angelic aura

62: Position

65: Just released




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