Crossword for Mon, 4/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Nearly closed

5: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)

8: 9-Down output

13: Christmas trio

14: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

15: Man on a mission

16: Cunctation

19: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

20: Type of admiral

21: Otherwise

22: Austerity [1929]

26: Besides

27: Auction offering

28: Miles per hour, e.g.

29: Whitetail buck

30: Broad thoroughfare

34: Tobacco pipe part

36: Iron-recycling organ

37: Dark circle

41: Entrechat or jeté

43: Item on a plan

44: Use UPS

47: Got larger

49: 'Shogun' sash

50: A whole lot

51: Not forgotten

55: List abbr.

56: Follower of Mary

57: Acorn dropper

58: Disease experts

64: Romantic bouquet

65: Browser function

66: Tide type

67: Agonizes (over)

68: 'The Catcher in the ___'

69: Slightly tainted
Down
1: Band blaster

2: Preserves preserver

3: In the past

4: Nouveau ___

5: Rm. coolers

6: Roman's country

7: Clergymen

8: Train for a title fight

9: Feline, to Tweety

10: Okay for consumption

11: Light a fire under

12: Qui-Gon Jinn, to Obi-Wan Kenobi

14: Bombay garment

17: Out of work? (abbr.)

18: Suitcase ID

22: Crescent-shaped mountain range

23: Word before opera or dish

24: Letters on a keyboard key

25: Blubber

26: Commercial creators

31: Iodine sources

32: Itty-bitty

33: What 'evil' is to 'vile'

35: Palindromic preposition

38: Skunk's funk

39: Job for a grease monkey

40: In the thick of

42: Title for a Canadian province leader

43: Electrify

44: Takes the tiller

45: Communal Asian dish

46: Cut into

48: Give form to

52: Make academic

53: Brown paper container

54: Barely getting by, with 'out'

56: Minus

59: Condensation phenomenon

60: A white one is small

61: Red or Yellow

62: Highlander's cap

63: Undercover worker




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