Crossword for Thu, 30/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Sprinkles powder

6: Slattern

10: Turkey

14: Pass out

15: Dixie bread

16: Rip-roaring review

17: Foolish

18: Tall tale

19: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

20: City on the Volga

22: Player's peg

23: Lacking, along the Loire

24: Part of a journey

25: Come up with a scheme

27: Gigantic 'Arabian Nights' flyer

30: Formed into a circle

32: Royal family VIPs

36: Some gametes

37: Goes out with

38: Invalidate legally

39: Terrorized

41: Steak throwaway

43: Merchandising scheme, briefly

44: Like Richard and Yorick?

45: Pinot Noir or Merlot

46: Quite high

47: Laryngeal affliction

48: Balaam's mount

49: Colorful aquarium inhabitant

51: Brief time, briefly

53: Former Iranian ruler

56: Lurid

57: Doesn't contain one's anger

61: Small and insignificant

62: Screen-measuring unit

64: Hand cream ingredient

65: Qualities of the conceited

66: Hippodrome section

67: La Scala offering

68: Fender flaw

69: Back talk

70: Au pair
Down
1: Speaker's place

2: Arm bone

3: Loud door sound

4: Like Schubert's music, e.g.

5: Its depth is illusory

6: Undercover worker

7: Despises

8: Like much bulk mail

9: Something to believe in

10: Gives a spritz, perhaps

11: Pumice source

12: Where cookies might crumble

13: Cons' confines

21: Go along

26: Committee head

27: Frolics

28: Exposed

29: Craft entered gingerly

31: Four-poster, e.g.

33: IV part

34: Hoyle's concern

35: Iditarod entries

40: February birthstone

41: Slimy stuff

42: Incite

44: Walks with a pompous gait

47: Head cases?

50: Nincompoops

52: Second word of an apology

53: Stepped on it

54: Titanic

55: In the near future

58: Part of a hammer head

59: Little gull

60: Hang around

63: 9 - 5, e.g.




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