Crossword for Thu, 4/Jul/2024

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Across
1: Alliances

6: Boulevard liners

10: Big financial loss

14: Man of steel?

15: Rioter's illegal take

16: On vacation, perhaps

17: Inner self

18: Casino card game

19: Imitate Popeye

20: Resolute

22: Write up

23: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

24: Rankles

26: Sworn

30: More shrewd

32: Water sprite

33: Constricting snake

34: Henry and Gerald

38: Lean

39: Wharf pest

40: Stead

41: Map legend, usually

43: Musclebound brute

44: ___ fatale

45: Horse holders

47: Calf catchers

48: Indian chief

51: Polynesian paste

52: Long lunch?

53: Essay units

60: Chemical group derived from benzene

61: Stage direction

62: Sweet'N Low alternative

63: No longer green

64: Cubbyholes?

65: 'Kama ___' (Hindu love manual)

66: Spot and Fido

67: Small whirlpool

68: Succulent

Down
1: Pitt of 'Ocean's Twelve'

2: Unaccompanied

3: Article that may list survivors

4: Arrive

5: Got going

6: Like a Keebler spokesman

7: Deal with a shylock

8: 'Don't stop'

9: Stick-in-the-mud

10: Venetian boat songs

11: Be in store for

12: Sample, as the soup

13: Pumps up

21: In between

25: KO caller

26: Knock preceder

27: Full of oneself

28: Keeps from squeaking

29: Good places for nature photographers to hang out

30: Some afternoon TV shows

31: Not on schedule

33: Breakfast grain

35: Lens holders

36: Test-driver's car

37: Litigates

42: Player's peg

44: Most equitable

46: Obstruct

47: Item placed on andirons

48: Kind of dresser

49: Eagle's nest

50: Underground vault

51: Fall guy

54: Fired

55: Peel

56: Water color

57: Positions

58: Stag

59: Delight, as a comedy club crowd





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