Crossword for Mon, 18/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Win them all

6: Rm. coolers

9: Intense

14: Island near Molokai

15: Two-piece piece

16: More ticked

17: Ready for the showers

19: Betray contempt

20: City near Scottsdale

21: Boil fluid

22: Oval nuts

23: Legal setting

25: 'You ___ here'

26: Flabbergasted

31: Penguin perches

33: Morse code component

34: Test choice

35: Bagel topper

36: Dance like Hines

39: Biretta or beret

41: Solicit alms

42: Article that may list survivors

44: Navigator's need

46: Accumulate

48: BIG DIPPER

52: Ossuary

53: Part of PABA

54: Removed seeds from cotton

57: Stanley, for one

58: Write up

62: Crosswise to the keel

63: Lie

65: Doohickey

66: Had a bite

67: Put a new price on, say

68: Moving about

69: Court divider

70: GPA part

Down
1: Visit a run-down neighborhood

2: Gradual decline

3: Budgets make them meet

4: Otalgia

5: Chart shape

6: Laughable

7: Like most jays

8: In mourning

9: Maintain

10: Musical event

11: Ammonia compound

12: Adolescent

13: Slips

18: Created a web site?

22: Orzo or ziti

24: Vote off the island

26: Poisonous substance

27: Gigantic 'Arabian Nights' flyer

28: Citified

29: Signals

30: Vats for frats?

31: Fluffy mass

32: Gray wolf

37: Change for the better

38: Spanky, to Alfalfa

40: Annoyance

43: Enormous sea wave

45: Mollify

47: 'Minnie the ___' (Cab Calloway song)

49: No great shake

50: Juju or grigri

51: Rewards for waiting?

54: Wild (over)

55: Sacred bird of Egypt

56: Digs of twigs

59: Greek letter

60: Wart giver of folklore

61: Upper hand

63: Idol worshiper

64: Energy unit





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