Crossword for Thu, 30/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Secondhand

5: Web-footed mammal

10: Grocery store vehicle

14: Dress length

15: String quartet member

16: Emulsifying agent

17: How ER doctors give orders

19: Clown of renown

20: Makes ill

21: Carried on

22: Heed medical advice, perhaps

26: West Point student

30: Giver of freedom

34: Be a ham

35: Recipe direction

36: She may get sheared

37: Twos in a deck

39: Sleeveless cloak

42: Fall off, as the tide

43: You don't need a license to fly it

47: Gave a hoot

48: Article starters

51: Chews the fat

52: Floppy, for one

54: Set securely (Var.)

57: Trades in

62: Average

63: Range of skills in a particular occupation

66: Leaping insect

67: Ticked off

68: Roid or road follower

69: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

70: Bundles of hay

71: Cattle poker
Down
1: Baseball VIPs

2: Bombay garment

3: Firm head

4: Tiddlywink, e.g.

5: Just like ewe?

6: Adds seasonal glitter to

7: Dress fancily, with 'out'

8: Building wing

9: Piano man Charles

10: Jewish occult philosophy

11: Bug-eyed

12: Demolish

13: Trampled (on)

18: Parlor piece

21: Mindless card game

23: ___ for tat

24: 'Shogun' sash

25: Limited time

26: Gave in

27: Simple organism

28: Uncertainty

29: List abbr.

31: Colorful aquarium inhabitant

32: Just-hatched hooter

33: Oboes, e.g.

38: Goes downhill fast?

40: Regional manner of speech

41: 'Uh uh'

44: Cartridge contents

45: Player's peg

46: Nature lover

49: Plant swellings

50: Eye liner?

53: Biblical weeds

54: Dirt, so to speak

55: Gangster's gal

56: Produced offspring

58: Village or hamlet

59: False witness

60: Thus

61: Watermelon beginning

63: Josh

64: Long time

65: Spanky, to Alfalfa




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