Crossword for Mon, 11/Dec/2023

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Across
1: What some writers work on

5: Insulting remark

9: Swindle

14: Pip

15: Burn soother

16: Fields persona

17: Belladonna lily

19: Greek gathering spot

20: Locale for Christmas stockings

21: 'Shall we?' response

23: Pouch in the body

24: Mai ___

26: Bridge support

28: Spiny anteater

32: One working with Linux, e.g.

33: Sound on the rebound

34: Hgts.

36: Snack

39: Spoiled child

40: Motion defeaters

41: Train for a title fight

42: Baby-feeding finale

43: Show partiality

44: Resistance units

45: Package carrier

47: Soccer official

50: Agitate

53: Used a spade

54: Star pitcher

55: Many a retired thoroughbred

57: Root vegetable

62: Uses Elmer's

64: Where you live

66: Stand for a portrait

67: Tickled-pink feeling

68: Bit to split

69: Inscribed pillar

70: Rushes

71: Spreadsheet divisions

Down
1: Loud door sound

2: Mountain lion

3: Sparkle

4: Short and not so sweet

5: Troubadour's offering

6: For ___ the marbles

7: Irritate

8: Attack from every angle

9: Balanced states

10: Not share

11: Certain punctuation mark

12: Untamed

13: Go over

18: Bigfoot's Asian cousin

22: Supporting bracket

25: Foolish

27: Light detector

28: Non-clashing color

29: Color named for a liqueur

30: Communal Asian dish

31: The rite place?

33: Fall off, as the tide

35: Like forks

37: Identical

38: 9 - 5, e.g.

40: Tornado siren, e.g.

46: Skirmish

48: Megaera, Tisiphone, and Alecto, collectively

49: Quaint oath

50: Calls, in a way

51: Razzle-dazzle

52: Scottish town

56: Home of heroes?

58: Pricey

59: Wild about

60: Garbage barge

61: Gropes for words

63: Slim swimmer

65: Attend





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