Crossword for Wed, 31/Jan/2024

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Across
1: LSD, informally

5: Diminish

9: Emulated Endymion

14: Raise, as an anchor

15: Computer signpost

16: Humidor item

17: Stretched

19: Point of view

20: Vessels in trunks

21: Again and again?

22: Unproductive

23: Tape spool

26: Roll call response

27: Throws away, with 'of'

29: Mont Blanc, for one

32: Chases away

35: Goes for

36: Excessively

37: Like clay pots

39: Jeff Foxworthy target

42: Merlot cask

43: Talking bird

45: Spine-tingling

46: In the manner of

47: Erstwhile

49: Protective trench

51: Gradual decline

52: Dress fancily, with 'out'

55: Like a runway model

57: Of the lips

59: Weather forecast, sometimes

60: Water down

63: Moving about

64: Neck line?

65: Family follower?

66: Points on a diamond?

67: Makes a sheepshank

68: Prepares leather
Down
1: Yet to occur

2: Flush or blush

3: Soap soap

4: Fender flaw

5: Prejudgments

6: It may be passed on the Hill

7: Water temperature 'gauge'

8: Wrap up

9: Frightens

10: Large ship

11: Kitchen utensil

12: Gloom

13: Deuce topper

18: Loud

21: 'We hold ___ truths...'

24: Person from whom something is named

25: Cut off

27: Morse code component

28: Rock layers

30: Places

31: Elbow

32: Words with precedent

33: Drag

34: Adornments

38: Be a ham

40: Take down a peg

41: Wedding page word

44: Just released

47: Woodland deities

48: Coves

50: Jukebox choice

52: Sparkling topper

53: Like Cheerios

54: Mirthful states

55: Mop up

56: Plastic name

58: Joke object

60: Sternward

61: Cycle starter

62: Player's peg




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