Crossword for Wed, 9/Oct/2024

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Across
1: Sis or bro

4: Coin toss

8: Bustle

12: Hang around

13: Peru's capital

14: Lit up

16: Like some excuses

17: Band boxes?

18: Heartburn cause, often

19: Eyeball

20: Kind of moron?

21: Pose for a pic

23: German shepherd, for one

24: Artist's plaster

26: Absorb, with 'up'

28: Starts of sneezes

30: St. Louis gridder

32: Eyes

36: Like burnt briquettes

39: Pretty good

41: Game on horseback

42: Seek favor with

43: Windshield cleaner

45: Baby bear

46: Succulent

48: Smoke trace

49: Takes advantage of

50: Do a spit take

51: Ebay posting

52: Spoil

54: Senate vote

56: Bury

60: Bounce up and down

63: 'The Catcher in the ___'

65: Lower, as lights

67: Piano man Charles

68: La Scala offering

70: Did the butterfly

72: Devil-may-___

73: Ballet costumes

74: Pageantry

75: Keeps from squeaking

76: Rational

77: Deep desires

78: Amt.
Down
1: Gaze fixedly

2: Metrical units

3: Tournament exemption

4: Whence linseed oil and linen

5: Like a rickey

6: Troublemaker

7: Quarterback's call

8: Ipso ___

9: Utterance of revulsion

10: Didn't come home standing up

11: Fly alone

12: Trudge, as through sludge

15: Part of a costume, perhaps

20: Chimpanzee's hoot

22: Mao follower?

25: Verbalize

27: The old man

29: Madame of the sty

30: ___ Deployment Force (one Marine division and four Army divisions)

31: Motion-carrying votes

33: Large predatory birds of myth

34: Down in the dumps

35: Wails

36: Piercing tools

37: Where to see the alphabet float

38: Gardener's coil

40: Fuzzy fruit

44: LP measure

47: Major rte.

49: Ossuary

51: Cargo compartment

53: Point, as a rifle

55: Remove graphite or graffiti

57: It could be dominant

58: Ahead of schedule

59: Deli loaves

60: Repetitive computer program

61: Important work

62: Word before blocker or testing

64: Get a glimpse of

65: Word of frustration

66: Mischief-makers

69: Turn tail

71: Deep distress

72: 'Le ___ d'Or'




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