Crossword for Sat, 8/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Bidder's amount

6: Brutally frank

9: Sign of healing

13: Kicking partner

14: Utterance of revulsion

15: Rub and rub and rub

16: Nuts for drink flavoring

17: Opposite of paleo-

18: Arctic jacket

19: Tournament directors, at times

21: With the least delay

23: Vichy water

24: Type of admiral

25: Smidge

28: Lunar effect

30: Meal

35: Is short and shy

37: Snack

39: Sentimental

40: Laura, to George W.

41: Incredible bargain

43: Kind of coffee

44: 'The ___ of Kilimanjaro'

46: Rice drink

47: Rational

48: Christmas quaff

50: Meadows

52: Ran in front

53: Fishing gear

55: Dyer's tub

57: Power plant apparatus

61: Biological maps

65: Send to Siberia

66: Electrify

68: Sweet'N Low alternative

69: ___ over (assisted through difficulty)

70: Chess piece

71: 'Kama ___' (Hindu love manual)

72: Hearty meal

73: Aardvark's tidbit

74: Itty-bitty
Down
1: Acorn droppers

2: Slippery sheet

3: Set of related records

4: Circumvent

5: Move to the front row, maybe

6: Ballpark figures

7: Historical period

8: '___ Line Is It Anyway?'

9: Read quickly

10: Roy Innis's org.

11: Black-and-white divers

12: Spoiled child

15: Future ferns

20: Chichen Itza attraction

22: Crew implement

24: Closes back up

25: Look for water

26: Causing wonder

27: Confuse

29: Braille markings

31: Veggie vessels

32: Ear-related

33: Title holder?

34: Used a keyboard

36: Stitched

38: Cod relative

42: Depart

45: Put into ascending order

49: Slimy stuff

51: Most reasonable

54: Type of queen

56: Brimless hat

57: Soaks, as flax

58: Stage direction

59: Subordinate staffer

60: Ball of yarn

61: Lady's man

62: Remote possibility?

63: Make money

64: Delight, as a comedy club crowd

67: Lurid




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