Crossword for Mon, 9/Dec/2024

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Across
1: Hansom vehicle

4: Make a line, maybe

8: Rope fiber

12: Soft cheese

13: Time past

14: Be in store for

16: Vote off the island

17: Warm in the microwave

18: Agent's take, maybe

19: Hairdo helper

20: Nov. 11 honoree

21: Sleepy coworker

23: Pouch in the body

24: Inscribed pillar

26: Frequency of TV viewing?

28: Get ready for a fight

30: Siamese or Persian

32: Inscribe with acid

36: Movie

39: 'Hamlet,' for example

41: Strategem

42: Time-wasting bother

43: Room with a number of wives

45: Trim the turf

46: Drain problem

48: Flower holder

49: Spot and Fido

50: Copy editor's bane

51: Moisten

52: Deep distress

54: Life story, for short

56: Shoe inserts

60: Shade tree

63: Silent sayso

65: Ebay posting

67: Garbage bag closer

68: Clues, to a detective

70: Nearly closed

72: Lion's pride

73: Prima ___

74: Quacker

75: Sty cry

76: Held on to

77: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

78: Get nosy
Down
1: Salad oil holder

2: Market place

3: Wager

4: Unit of force

5: 100-0, e.g.

6: First zoo?

7: Exemplar of rapid growth

8: Come up with a scheme

9: She may get sheared

10: Furnishes with workers

11: Sandwich bread

12: Cranberry sources

15: Pot ingredient?

20: Chap.'s partner

22: Away from the office

25: Flight from justice

27: Not very many

29: Speed meas.

30: Diamond weight

31: Motion-carrying votes

33: Magazine founded by Henry Luce

34: Coagulate

35: Chops down

36: It's true

37: Without expending much energy

38: Roller coaster feature

40: Bathe

44: Kitten's cry

47: Sailor, in slang

49: Soup veggie

51: Seek favor with

53: Trite

55: Map legend, usually

57: Flight component

58: Metallic-sounding

59: Run for

60: Yuletide worker

61: Information from Deep Throat

62: Pepper spray alternative

64: Baby's favorite art movement?

65: Support

66: Vexes

69: Tango maneuver

71: French dip dip

72: Swab




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