Crossword for Tue, 9/May/2023

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Across
1: Rolex rival

6: Mischief-makers

10: Mouths, slangily

14: What you gotta have, in a 'Damn Yankees' song

15: Protective trench

16: Course climax

17: Microwave device

18: State tree of Maine

19: Pansophic

20: Get in the way of

22: Post-Mardi Gras period

24: 'Caught you!'

25: Hunk

27: Master of a research discipline

29: Hopeful soul

33: Center of activity

34: Showing overuse

35: Like lemons

37: 'The Sweetheart of ___ Chi'

41: Grassland

42: More duplicitous

44: Hardly hard-nosed

45: Writing points

48: Spy spying on a spy

49: Tip for a casino dealer

50: Loutish fellow

52: Zigzagged downhill

54: Reputation ruiners

58: Train for a title fight

59: Took the gold

60: No ifs, ands, or ___

62: Bending readily

66: Water color

68: Bird with an eerie call

70: Rain's effect on a baseball game

71: Make, as CDs

72: Unresisting

73: Draw out something latent

74: Transmit

75: Hearty meal

76: Like the Pantheon
Down
1: Resistance units

2: Nitty-gritty

3: 'No problem!'

4: Invisible troublemaker

5: Hotel lobby, sometimes

6: Troublemaker

7: Work hard

8: Glass squares

9: Bad smell

10: Archery bow wood

11: Along the line of rotation

12: Turkish bigwig

13: Character assault

21: Puts out

23: Like so

26: Religious song

28: 'Shogun' sash

29: Night birds

30: Browning of pages of verse, for example

31: Waiter's tote

32: Chamber pieces

36: Squeals, so to speak

38: ___ onto (grab)

39: Construct

40: Fired

43: Brings in at harvest time

46: Item placed on andirons

47: Metric foot

49: Undersea weapon

51: Earthshaking matters?

53: Sang the praises of

54: Clears the deck

55: Brimless hat

56: To bury

57: Summer ermine

61: Unspecified amount

63: Fruit with a stone

64: Boot binding

65: Possessing peepers

67: 'Not only that ...'

69: Just released




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