Crossword for Fri, 6/Dec/2024

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Across
1: EPA computation

4: Cooks' quantities

8: Hour div.

11: Communally owned

13: Same-old same-old

15: Fries, often

16: Barbershop sound

17: On-ramp sign

18: Was certain of

19: Church group

21: Most dismal

23: Ho-hum

25: Lose traction

26: Napoleon and Danish

30: Socially exclusive

34: Gallery objects

35: Mournful peal

37: Eucalyptus muncher

38: De ___ (too much)

40: Turned on an axis

42: Pronounce indistinctly

43: Flogged, Singapore-style

45: Company bought by Kmart

47: Ran in front

48: Strong-jawed scavengers

50: Sprinkles, as paint

52: Study in a panic

54: Cluster bean

55: Huge quantity

60: Electronic images

63: Drummer's rhythm

64: Unpleasant

66: Half hitch, e.g.

67: Feels poorly

68: Stuffed delicacy

69: Starch from palms

70: Veneer layer

71: Adjective for some vines

72: Madame of the sty

Down
1: Rolling stone's lack, proverbially

2: Small and insignificant

3: Blade sharpener

4: Magna ___ laude

5: Secondhand

6: Happy cat's sound

7: Wise people

8: 'I'll catch it!'

9: Roman date

10: 'To Renew America' writer Gingrich

12: Wear with pride

14: Holes

15: Snow vehicles

20: Poorly lit

22: Curling surface

24: Storage containers

26: Planted area

27: Duds

28: They get into sushi

29: Swings around

31: 'Swan Lake' leads

32: Not as cheery

33: Gridiron units

36: Entrechat or jeté

39: Writing implements

41: Bummer

44: Mend socks

46: Pencil remnant

49: Healthy lunch choice

51: Converses

53: It gets pushed around a lot

55: Drainpipe bend

56: Irritate

57: Friend

58: Curly coif

59: Crummy place

61: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

62: Put into the overhead bin

65: Place (a bet)





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