Crossword for Sat, 9/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Bio class setting

4: They're beaten in the kitchen

8: Bulk

12: The death of the party?

13: Escapade

14: Snobbishly unfriendly

16: Rioter's illegal take

17: Head for the hills

18: West Indies dance

19: Piece with a purpose

21: Salacious

23: Fight for breath

24: Itty-bitty

25: Was in the red

27: Have stuff

29: Pretty good

30: Haunting sound

31: Basketball position (abbr.)

34: Ran home, perhaps

37: Service piece

38: Sundial figure

39: Pioneering video game

40: Practical joke

41: Vampire's tooth

42: Very cold

43: Utter loudly

45: Montana and Washington

47: Levy

48: Cargo compartment

49: Persuade, with 'over'

50: Family

51: Elevator car

52: Family man

55: Drop out, in poker

58: Count's counterpart

60: Gate alternative

62: Soft palate part

64: Regretted

66: Computer signpost

67: Knuckle rapper

68: Numbers game

69: It may zoom in or out

70: Gloomy atmosphere

71: Smelting residue

72: Energy unit
Down
1: Unfettered

2: Responded to reveille

3: Word before blocker or testing

4: Yuletide worker

5: Ship's mess

6: Midas's undoing

7: Place at an angle

8: ___ de mer (seasickness)

9: Straighten, as wheels

10: Body of an organism

11: Wails

12: Botched up

15: Dandy

20: Farm team neckwear

22: One way out

26: Blob of used gum

28: Chinese restaurant implement

29: Ending of many WWW addresses

30: Peaty place

31: That's an order

32: Beverage with a bouquet

33: Excavates

34: Barbecue accessory

35: Comedienne Imogene

36: Figurine mineral

37: Jack Sprat no-no

40: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese

41: Idol worshiper

43: Unit of oil production, briefly

44: Baikal is the world's deepest

45: Droop

46: Makes a sheepshank

49: Lead ore

50: Time waster

51: Heartless

52: Chef, at times

53: Together (with)

54: Cubbyholes?

55: It may be synthetic

56: Egg, classically

57: Pip

59: Cumbersome boats

61: Scrabble letter

63: First zoo?

65: German shepherd, for one




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