Crossword for Tue, 8/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Way off

5: Word of woe

9: Looks like a lecher

14: Break-taker's number

15: Beverage with a bouquet

16: Dry white Italian wine

17: Silly goose

20: Adjective for some statesmen

21: They're numbered in supermarkets

22: Double bass cousins

24: Debussy's 'La ___'

25: 'Hee ___'

28: 'Don't give up!'

29: Legs, slangily

32: Breakout

34: Repairman's reading

36: Last word in prayer

37: Outside consultants?

40: Black, to a bard

42: Proficiencies

43: Product endorsed by Jordan

46: Surface-to-surface missile

47: Can opener?

50: Prohibition

51: Trite

53: Rap session?

55: Most faithful

58: Cross the goal line

59: Job category

63: Old-womanish

64: Stuff to the gills

65: A runner may break it

66: It meant little to de Gaulle

67: Test choice

68: Scratched (out)
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1: Act on

2: Dentist, at times

3: With fervor

4: James Dean's persona

5: Electrify

6: Former capital of Italy?

7: Knock preceder

8: Shaking of the earth

9: Basketry twigs

10: Oodles

11: Bio class setting

12: Original sinner

13: Go down

18: Ankle-high work shoe

19: Tickled-pink feeling

23: Storm particles

25: Amateur radio broadcasters

26: Musclebound brute

27: 'My Country Versus Me' author ___ Ho Lee

30: Tousle

31: Fires

33: They often clog the major arteries

34: Lion's pride

35: Secular

37: Filet mignon source

38: Favorable factor

39: Like Bart, among the Simpson siblings

40: Fall off, as the tide

41: Two-piece piece

44: Lose one's train

45: Pronounce indistinctly

47: Arctic outerwear

48: Abrade

49: Followed closely

52: Religious rationalist

54: Intense

55: Ankles, anatomically

56: Feature of Karloff's Frankenstein monster

57: Bishop Desmond

59: Fuzz

60: Undivided

61: Louse egg

62: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda




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