Crossword for Fri, 23/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Gripe, gripe, gripe

5: Very familiar with

9: Do a spit take

13: One working with Linux, e.g.

14: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

15: Joseph, while in Egypt

16: Starting point

18: Tuckers out

19: Red or Yellow

20: Gondolier gear

21: Right-triangle reciprocal

22: Slow movers

24: Stiffens

25: Tie the knot

26: Widely scattered

27: Gets ready to be shot

30: Flies high

31: Sailor, in slang

34: Is short and shy

35: Popeye's buddies

36: Either of the racing Earnhardts

37: Cygnet's mother

38: McCoy, to Captain Kirk

39: South African plain

40: Pyramids, prisms, et al.

42: Seamstress's sticker

43: Seasonal songs

44: Rotini and ziti

47: Glossy fabrics

48: Hayloft block

49: Block passage through

51: True companion

52: Pellet of precipitation

54: Square things

55: Sea spot

56: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

57: Crooked

58: Pain in the neck

59: Geek's cousin

Down
1: Budget decisions

2: Hearth heap

3: Showed a show again

4: Start to mature?

5: Support, as a ruling

6: Forms a puddle

7: Get an eyeful

8: Silent sayso

9: Canned peaches, often

10: Lawyer wannabe, maybe

11: Makes level

12: Adam of 'Batman'

15: Takes the tiller

17: Double agents

21: Movie greats

23: Knocks for a loop

24: Old footwear

26: Cobbler's supply

27: The old man

28: Have markers out

29: Stir

30: Smooths, in a way

32: Trite

33: Wager

35: Besmirches

36: Fender flaw

38: Flaxen-haired

39: Wood shop grippers

41: Steer straight

42: Forklift platform

43: Nice menu

44: Buckets

45: Superior in rank

46: More with it

47: Thrusting blow

48: Pyramid bottom

50: Tear apart

52: With it

53: Half a score





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