Crossword for Tue, 31/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Tree fluid

4: Drop out, in poker

8: Unrestrained anger

12: Summoned

13: Beseech

14: Charged particle

16: Have the final say

17: Cardinal

18: First head of Homeland Security

19: Breezing through, as an exam

21: Long haul

23: Nursing need

24: Lincoln loc.

25: Tells a whopper

27: 'To each ___ own'

29: Whistle-blowers, of a sort

30: Block passage through

31: Beat walker

34: Suitors

37: Informer

38: Garden tool

39: 'Inhabitant' of some tequila bottles

40: Muddlement

41: Stupefy

42: Batman foe Poison ___

43: Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' word for 'scratch, dog-style'

45: Savage sorts

47: Hairdo helper

48: Vote to kill

49: Paint crudely

50: Magna ___ laude

51: Vats for frats?

52: Ending of many WWW addresses

55: Give birth to

58: Stretch across

60: '... and baby makes ___'

62: Along the line of rotation

64: Important work

66: Footnote word

67: Artist's plaster

68: Extinct flightless bird

69: Hair fixers

70: Leak slowly

71: Place at an angle

72: 9 - 5, e.g.
Down
1: It covers your ribs

2: Improvise

3: Part of a hammer head

4: 28,800 seconds before midnight

5: Gives a speech

6: Hibernation locales

7: Unit of force

8: A long way off

9: Squadrons

10: Bridle path excursion

11: Meditation method

12: Breakfast grain

15: Court divider

20: Campbell of country music

22: 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of ___'

26: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

28: Tick off

29: Backboard attachment

30: Important

31: On-line discussion

32: Primordial sludge

33: They're 16th of 26

34: Toss back

35: Zigzagged

36: Chemical group derived from benzene

37: Dr. No, to Bond

40: Small one

41: Touch on the shoulders with a sword

43: Bearded African grazer

44: Southern roots

45: Brown paper container

46: Corrode

49: Strip

50: Stop

51: Stuffing stuff

52: Gavel pounder's demand

53: Rod companions

54: Precious stones

55: Crone

56: Gives the heave-ho

57: Tight gripper

59: Veggie vessels

61: Like a piccolo's range

63: Cut off

65: Madame of the sty




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