Crossword for Sat, 17/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Capsize

6: Loafer, for instance

10: Piece of water sport equipment

14: Sparkling topper

15: Mountain lake

16: Dubai VIP

17: Mediates

19: Up to the task

20: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

21: Menlo Park monogram

22: Goes by bike

24: SWAT team specialists

28: Gallery objects

29: Loops of yarn

30: Market optimist

33: Coppers in Coventry

34: Swab

37: Chemical cousin

40: Heartache

42: Court divider

43: Wait and see, e.g.

45: Emulate a couch potato

46: Type of comedy

47: Musclebound brute

49: Modern writers' aids

54: Tout

55: 'To each ___ own'

56: McBride of 'Boston Public'

59: Exceptional

60: The state of having children

64: Large pitcher

65: Like so

66: Expire

67: Budgets make them meet

68: Lacking, along the Loire

69: Olympic weapons

Down
1: Elec., e.g.

2: State tree of Maine

3: Stuffs to the gills

4: Palindromic preposition

5: Genghis Khan follower

6: Quite high

7: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

8: Unwrought iron

9: Settle snugly

10: Flinches or frowns, say

11: Walk leisurely

12: Office worker, at times

13: Head lock

18: Grocery store vehicle

23: They join the team

25: Sentry's shout

26: '___ Loves You'

27: Ranch workers

30: Container

31: Employ

32: Auction offering

33: Sit

34: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

35: Coat of many colors?

36: Start to mature?

38: Ellipsoids

39: Impressions

41: Cruise ship terminal

44: Apiary occupant

46: Some junk mail

47: Analogous

48: Mortar partner

49: Lively outing

50: Shrimp relative

51: Dog-___

52: 'Through the Looking-Glass' game

53: Rifle attachment

57: Gardener's coil

58: Roman date

61: 'Caught you!'

62: Turn tail

63: Come to pass





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