Crossword for Wed, 30/Oct/2024

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Across
1: Pharaohs' symbol of power

4: Ann, to Abby

8: Get the ball rolling

12: Test choice

13: Used to be

14: Love affair

16: Household staff

17: Acorn droppers

18: Title holder?

19: Cartridge contents

20: 'Shoot'

21: Pose for a pic

23: Hardly hard-nosed

24: Like Fran Drescher's voice

26: Chap.'s partner

28: Tongues do it

30: Major rte.

32: PC software

36: Confront

39: Indian housemaid

41: One-third of a hat trick

42: 'What have we here?'

43: Creepy 'Psycho' motel

45: Bearded African grazer

46: Quiet spot

48: Numbers game

49: Break-even amount

50: A or B, in personalities

51: Supplied

52: Haunting sound

54: Slimy stuff

56: Stations

60: Get ready for a fight

63: Not masc.

65: Golf range surface

67: Sensational

68: Score unit

70: Large pitcher

72: Assured of success

73: Tea type

74: Information from Deep Throat

75: British baby buggy

76: Stitched

77: Cubbyholes?

78: Attention getter
Down
1: Combat site

2: Behaves broodingly

3: Kind of talk

4: 'Terrible' phase

5: Too diluted

6: Tick off

7: Promontory

8: Cut companion

9: Diamond judge

10: Slave away

11: Sandwich fish

12: Word after paper or before skinned

15: Mardi Gras luminary

20: In the manner of

22: Batman foe Poison ___

25: Electrify

27: Tease mercilessly

29: Debatable gift

30: Despised

31: 'At what time?'

33: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

34: Bad reviews

35: Slattern

36: Type type

37: Sailor's greeting

38: Pigeons' house

40: Construct

44: Turn on the waterworks

47: Barrel of suds

49: Pigeon patter

51: Dr. No, to Bond

53: Choose

55: Frequently

57: Wall Street commodity

58: Show hosted by Katie Couric

59: Tobacco pipe part

60: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)

61: Lobster and beluga products

62: Connors of 'Mannix'

64: Merge

65: Nasty

66: Cumbersome boats

69: When most children want things

71: Itty-bitty

72: Speed meas.




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