Crossword for Sat, 7/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Peasant

6: Constricting snake

9: Hang decorations on

13: Coin of Nepal or Pakistan

14: Electrical unit

15: Washing machine sound

16: Greek gathering spot

17: Tennis shot

18: Surpass in performance

19: A Catholic sacrament

21: Makes less tense

23: Wedding page word

24: Sound of laughter

25: List abbr.

28: Title for Edith Evans

30: Given a new look

35: Lingerie buys

37: Word before opera or dish

39: Bridge position

40: The death of the party?

41: Community character

43: Don

44: Geological span

46: On cloud nine

47: Rice drink

48: Certain Soviet nuclear submarines

50: Exigency

52: Stitch up

53: Emulates Eminem

55: Quill tip

57: Bad thing to be held

61: Flower-shaped decoration

65: Gives the go-ahead to

66: Time-wasting bother

68: Ancestry

69: Is in need of

70: Coke's partner, at the bar

71: Used a bombsight

72: Levee

73: Absorb, with 'up'

74: Reminiscent of an oboe
Down
1: Renege, slangily, with 'out'

2: Titanic

3: Very familiar with

4: Showed a show again

5: Tilted

6: Tree trunk

7: 'What have we here?'

8: Walk leisurely

9: Like so

10: Ceremonial practice

11: High spd. phone line

12: Conductance units

15: Like some sweaters

20: Stop

22: Crew implement

24: Proud birds' mates

25: Receded

26: Figure of speech

27: Christmas song

29: Witticisms

31: Carnation's 'contented' creatures

32: Geometry calculations

33: Surveil, with 'out'

34: Let fly

36: Quakers or Shakers

38: Dixie bread

42: Minutes taker, perhaps

45: Bedevil

49: Droop

51: Keep from practicing

54: Still life fruits

56: Contradict

57: Cargo compartment

58: Pretty good

59: Give the ax to

60: Youngster

61: Play like a puppy

62: Heavy book

63: Hammered obliquely

64: Small whirlpool

67: White Stripes, for one




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