Crossword for Wed, 21/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Piercing tools

5: Folded food

9: Rot-resistant wood

14: Mouse, to an owl

15: Grad

16: Embroidered mat

17: Observed

18: Trout tempter

19: Backs, anatomically

20: College statistic

23: Goes out with

24: Part of a hammer head

25: Map abbr.

27: Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys?

34: Makes level

35: Horse color

36: Printer spec.

37: Soaks, as flax

38: Church doctrine

40: Drop out, in poker

41: Whichever

42: Wart giver of folklore

43: Put to rest

44: Hazarding a guess: doughy metaphysician?

48: Old soap ingredient

49: At all

50: Roe source

53: Offensive

59: Quail group

61: Caroling song

62: ___ fixe

63: Spice rack selection

64: Spork part

65: 'Far out!'

66: Outshines

67: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

68: Intervals

Down
1: Church recess

2: Small songbird

3: Dirty look

4: Brief accounts

5: More statuesque

6: Barnard graduate

7: Make healthy again

8: Harbinger

9: Include

10: Untie

11: Like some straits

12: Apart from this

13: Handwoven rugs

21: 'Shall we?' response

22: Three-note chord

26: Bon or won follower

27: Combat site

28: Type of rubber

29: Doctrine of belief

30: Water temperature 'gauge'

31: Teen faves

32: Water balloon impact sound

33: Neat as a pin

34: Drainpipe bend

38: Funnel-shaped

39: Wharf pest

40: Batting eyelids, licking lips, etc.

42: Diminutive dog

43: Reason and Enlightenment

45: Like Bart, among the Simpson siblings

46: Map feature

47: Seeds-to-be

50: Sign of healing

51: Use a whetstone

52: Dollar competitor

54: Wild about

55: Potter's purchase

56: Brainwave

57: Tide type

58: Catches on to

60: 'Sure thing!'





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