Crossword for Sat, 31/Aug/2024

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Across
1: A runner may break it

5: Sales staff members

9: Wearing wedgies, say

13: Computer signpost

14: Quits the stage

16: Oktoberfest horn

17: Informal voucher

18: Of the unborn

19: Got grounded?

20: Church group

22: Fine-tune

24: Cause of a bad air day

26: Hand cream ingredient

27: They're revolting

29: Hot dog condiment

33: Repetitive computer program

34: Wanders

37: ___ fatale

38: Inning enders

40: Mild depression, with 'the'

42: Do a spit take

43: Remain (with)

45: Three-note chord

47: Campaigned for office

48: Burned superficially

50: Appropriate to the occasion

52: Extended and dramatic narratives

55: Misfortunes

56: Disturbed

60: Sparkling topper

63: Nasty

64: Valentine's Day symbol

66: Film crew member

67: Lay macadam

68: Throw with effort

69: Busy place

70: Stepped on it

71: Deli side

72: Hammered obliquely

Down
1: Nervous twitches

2: Throbbing

3: Flower displayed at Christmas

4: Lay to rest

5: KO caller

6: Firm head

7: Pocket breads

8: Kiosk

9: Takes by surprise

10: Hawaiian dance

11: Article that may list survivors

12: Prom escort

15: More duplicitous

21: Busy sort

23: Complaint

25: Lump of clay

27: 66, for one

28: Shaker contents

30: Stager

31: Character assault

32: Carved out

33: Padrone

35: Spoil

36: Use UPS

39: Like a CEO's incoming calls

41: Bombay garment

44: Held on to

46: Birdbrain

49: Small waterway

51: Sorry state

53: Whodunit necessities

54: Flower part

56: Baseball VIPs

57: Tide type

58: Conserve

59: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

61: ___ Gauche

62: Mocked by imitating

65: Condensation phenomenon





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