Crossword for Wed, 21/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Matter topper?

5: Skate's cousin

10: Parcel of land

14: Listen to

15: Like a roc

16: 'I can't ___ you!'

17: Profaned

19: Autumn tool

20: Take out

21: Impudent

22: Hobos' abodes

26: Moved on hands and knees

30: Try again

34: Of the countryside

35: Unspecified amount

36: Bluto's assent

37: Mistreats

39: 'Om,' e.g.

42: Kind of talk

43: Margarita flavoring

47: Liturgical headdress

48: Approximated

51: Glorify

52: Certain paper deliverer

54: Pooh-pooh

57: Mexican celebrations

62: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

63: Fancy pastry

66: Gumbo vegetable

67: Draw out something latent

68: Without a stitch

69: Exemplar of rapid growth

70: Outer limits

71: Miffed, with 'off'

Down
1: Pie à la ___

2: Alpine climber

3: Digs of twigs

4: Batik worker

5: 'The Washington Post' or 'Seventy-Six Trombones'

6: Figures in Hinduism

7: Louse egg

8: Menlo Park monogram

9: 'Not only that ...'

10: Put into words

11: Meadows

12: Acorn droppers

13: Deuce topper

18: Fairy tale setting

21: Go down

23: Opposite of paleo-

24: Highlander's cap

25: Short newspaper piece

26: Black band of mourning (Var.)

27: Naive rustics

28: Blow a fuse, say

29: Faux follower

31: Photo finish

32: Fire places

33: Blubbery water

38: Deli side

40: Strolls leisurely

41: Diddly-squat

44: Tag players

45: Actress Ryan

46: Imposing building

49: Encroachment

50: American voters before 1920

53: Hilltops

54: Sluggish

55: Blast furnace fuel

56: Shrek, e.g.

58: On cloud nine

59: Test choice

60: Subordinate staffer

61: Watermelon beginning

63: Capital of Phoenix?

64: Include

65: Harbor helper





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