Crossword for Wed, 4/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Begin blooming

4: Con job

8: Petal oils

14: Undivided

15: Friend

16: PayDay tidbit

17: Weaponry caches

19: Smoothed wood

20: Rewards for waiting?

21: Moisture

23: Geological span

25: A white one is small

26: Stain, as a fabric

29: Out of work? (abbr.)

30: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

35: Microbrewery offerings

36: Sneaky yellowbelly

37: Candy containing fruit

40: Exercises

41: Emulates Waldo Pepper

43: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

44: Old-time saloon

46: Chap.'s partner

49: Devious

50: Surgery sites, briefly

51: Rolling musician?

53: Breathing space

57: Hgts.

58: Monterrey dish

61: Turkish palace

63: Go by

64: Spoken

65: Goof up

66: Mean something

67: Digs of twigs

68: In the time left

Down
1: Yachtsman or hat

2: Green

3: Totalitarian ruler

4: Japanese honorific

5: Kind of hammer

6: Gene mutations

7: Occult figure

8: Church recess

9: Snapple selections

10: Prepares leather

11: 'Not only that ...'

12: Cry over spilled milk

13: Avg.

18: PC bailout

22: Exigency

24: Rock salt

26: Old-time telephone feature

27: Fabric shop purchase

28: Budgets make them meet

31: Kind of nut in 'South Pacific'

32: Sunups

33: Dramatist's ploys

34: St. and ave.

35: Way off

37: Airport vehicles

38: Football's contour

39: Swamplike

42: Word after union or comparison

43: Spartan

45: Prayer

46: Shot seen at Wimbledon

47: Unabridged

48: Vacation place

52: Label

53: Spellbound

54: Apart from this

55: Person of vision

56: Segments of history

58: President pro ___

59: In the manner of

60: Golf range surface

62: Peak stat





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