Crossword for Tue, 7/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Mischief-makers

5: '___ in Pink' (1986 movie)

11: Strong coffee, slangily

14: Gas station store

15: ___ borealis

16: Musclebound brute

17: One looking for trouble, in a way

19: Printer spec.

20: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

21: Forceful

23: More adept

26: Whimsical

28: Problem source

29: Nooks' partners

31: Musical saw sounds

33: Feline, to Tweety

34: Court sessions?

36: SWAT team specialists

41: Iamb woman?

42: Liable

44: Bunch

47: College freshman, usually

50: Emulate a couch potato

51: Brief time, briefly

52: Crude counters

53: Offensively malodorous

56: Time-wasting bother

57: Get ready for a fight

58: Second-stringer

64: Player's peg

65: Stamp or coin producer

66: Roman wrap

67: Include

68: Four Seasons song

69: Chimney sweep's target
Down
1: Troublemaker

2: Spoil

3: Old hand

4: About to be fenced, maybe

5: Cut back

6: Cry over spilled milk

7: Long time

8: Winter drink

9: Deuce topper

10: Tall tale

11: Lunatic

12: Raising

13: Uses a scraper, perhaps

18: Flowerless decorative plant

22: Put down

23: It may be passed on the Hill

24: Lingerie buys

25: It may get plastered

26: Monumental meal

27: Nature lover

30: Press on

31: The things there

32: Moisten

35: Trig. function

37: Church recesses

38: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

39: Indian music

40: What some writers work on

43: Cycle starter

44: Object of a birthday bash?

45: Was mad for

46: Attacked, à la 'Ghostbusters'

48: Zippo

49: Cancels, as a launch

51: Vague perception

54: Geishas' sashes

55: Dovetail

56: Off course

59: Varlet

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

61: It's heard in a herd

62: Teamwork deterrent

63: Wharf pest




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