Crossword for Fri, 12/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Signs of healing

6: Up to the task

10: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

14: Coconut product

15: Pricey

16: Lunar effect

17: Detach, in a way

18: In-box item

19: Help for the hapless

20: Profaned

22: Pony pace

23: Bon or won follower

24: Puts up

26: Mischievous one

30: Trig. function

32: Drive train element

33: Put one over on

35: ''Dead ___ Society''

39: Lightweight fabric

41: Like any number finishing with '9'

42: Pelvic bones

43: Terminator

44: Relish

46: Drink down

47: Scottish slopes

49: Some sound effects

51: Widely scattered

54: Block passage through

55: Typographic measure

56: Street urchin

63: Stage direction

64: Is short and shy

65: Prefix with vitamin

66: French film

67: Break the ___

68: Obscenity substitute, perhaps

69: Vats for frats?

70: Spots

71: Doesn't just close

Down
1: Surface-to-surface missile

2: Traffic lane marker

3: PC software

4: Soft cheese

5: Sacred places

6: Jingle writer, perhaps

7: Sugar source

8: Like some excuses

9: Undermines

10: Classic John Ford western

11: Popular fragrance

12: Let on

13: Annoying ones

21: Deep-massage developer

25: Sales staff members

26: Rip-roaring review

27: Neural fiber

28: Didn't come home standing up

29: Observes

30: Things to crack

31: Cutlass Supreme, e.g.

34: Primordial sludge

36: Sound on the rebound

37: Test choice

38: Slumps

40: Slips

45: Sled dogs, as a group

48: Oxygen-dependent microorganism

50: Cake remnants

51: Tiny dot

52: Playful sprite

53: Breezing through, as an exam

54: Receives pleasure

57: On vacation, perhaps

58: Kind of pool

59: Parking lot sign

60: Leaping insect

61: Short newspaper piece

62: Pup's bites





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