Crossword for Wed, 7/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Like a dungeon

5: Final prelim

9: Typographic units

14: Elec., e.g.

15: Send sprawling

16: Choose the window instead of the aisle?

17: Drive goals, often

19: Served, as hash

20: Illustrious

21: Choose

23: Metro maker

24: Recipe direction

26: Shining stars

28: One who knows the score

33: Back way

34: Dyer's tub

35: Temple student

38: Bosom buddies

39: Like a hedgehog

41: He has his pride

43: Menlo Park monogram

44: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

45: Residential building

46: Scalawag's confederate

50: 'Om,' e.g.

53: Appear

54: Some gametes

55: 'The Catcher in the ___'

57: Slander

62: Hidden supply

64: Disclosure

66: Employs

67: Regretted

68: Walk slowly

69: Tornado siren, e.g.

70: Connecting point

71: Deep desires
Down
1: Fellow, slangily

2: Bit to split

3: Revealing dress

4: Course of action

5: Acts frugally

6: Hot

7: Hour div.

8: ___ facto

9: Mortar partner

10: Hardly hale

11: Sort of syrup

12: Breathing problem

13: Western lilies

18: Irritable

22: Round ground?

25: Rivers run through them

27: Introductory bit (Var.)

28: Tree fluid

29: City map

30: Earthenware jar

31: Surgically remove

32: Japanese honorific

36: Prayer accompaniment?

37: Prospector's bonanza

39: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

40: Humdinger

42: Easter preceder?

45: Sleeps under the stars

47: Scene from 'Cops,' e.g.

48: Paired up

49: Next to

50: Starbucks order

51: Profit

52: Mother-of-pearl

56: Make money

58: Get a glimpse of

59: Get all stirred up

60: Any day now

61: Budgets make them meet

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

65: White Stripes, for one




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