Crossword for Tue, 25/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Ionesco creations

6: Peaty place

9: Kind of sayer

14: Ascended

15: In the past

16: Zeal

17: Tangled

19: Vanishes into thin air

20: Red or Yellow

21: Sit before a lens

22: Feline, to Tweety

23: Follow

25: Potluck staples

30: Earthenware

32: Oar-propelled galley

33: Baseball position

37: Personal quirk

38: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

42: Routing term

43: NH3

44: Dye type

47: Spoiled kids

51: Like remote data transmissions

55: Political gossip, at times

56: Brake neighbor

57: Computer signpost

59: Fade away

60: Novel setting for Solzhenitsyn

63: View from the top?

65: Be a ham

66: 'My Country Versus Me' author ___ Ho Lee

67: Slight degree

68: Made a selection

69: Energy unit

70: Outer limits

Down
1: Magic word

2: Like royal descent, usually

3: Go at

4: Craving

5: Go postal

6: Model wood

7: Curved moldings

8: Creator of the universe

9: African adventure

10: Demosthenes, for one

11: Like any number finishing with '9'

12: Water temperature 'gauge'

13: 9 - 5, e.g.

18: Gigantic 'Arabian Nights' flyer

22: Earthling, in sci-fi

24: Like a doily

26: Minutes taker, perhaps

27: 'Shall we?' response

28: Give off

29: Brief time, briefly

31: Pouch in the body

34: Macbeth et al.

35: Kohoutek, e.g.

36: Noah's second son

38: State tree of Maine

39: Travel smoothly

40: Freedom, briefly

41: Fabric shop purchase

42: Dyer's tub

45: Papal representative

46: Pictured mentally

48: Helping

49: 'M*A*S*H' procedure

50: Source of ancient depictions of kings and gods

52: 'Easy ___'

53: Cake cover

54: Portable bed

58: Memo

60: Metro maker

61: Diamond judge

62: Auction offering

63: She may get sheared

64: Free





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