Crossword for Fri, 31/Oct/2025

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Across
1: ___ facto

5: Faux

9: Track figures

13: Niagara Falls sound

14: Prestigious schools, informally

16: Baby-feeding finale

17: Soft drink nut

18: Bounded

19: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

20: Blind parts

22: Infamy

24: Asks for catnip

26: Creator of the universe

27: Junior rocker

29: Wave maker

33: Turn tail

34: Where Old Man River makes his deposits

36: Female demon

38: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

40: Equals

42: Memo

43: Michelangelo masterpiece

45: Deluge

47: 'What have we here?'

48: Prepare for inurnment

50: Pay attention

52: Get five in a row, in bingo

53: Into view

54: Bony-plated beast

59: Food on a skewer

62: Sound from a fan

63: Grieve

65: Stellar phenomenon

66: Tear apart

67: Crude counters

68: Girls' books hero Nancy

69: Ties up the phone

70: Fat on the bird feeder

71: Transmit
Down
1: Vexes

2: It may be Olympic-sized

3: Terrestrial amphibian

4: Preached

5: Inch fraction

6: They're often preheated

7: 'I'm history!'

8: Held on to

9: Volcanic glass

10: Bologna boss

11: 'Blast!'

12: Nimble

15: Cheap cigar

21: Listened to the bears

23: Drummer's rhythm

25: Sob

27: Renege, slangily, with 'out'

28: Mysterious

29: Inscribed pillar

30: Tropical root

31: Not rifled, as a firearm

32: Tenth part

35: Where Barry Bonds plays, briefly

37: Many millennia

39: Sommeliers

41: Fly alone

44: In the thick of

46: Pirate's blade

49: Inner self

51: Loses a lap

53: More than persuasion

54: Off course

55: Flightless bird

56: Stole stuff

57: Wimbledon hits

58: Oahu bash

60: Where cookies might crumble

61: My brothel's keeper?

64: Louse egg




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