Crossword for Sat, 2/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Highways and byways

6: Segments of history

10: Ancient Egyptian emblems

14: Make a circle around

15: Caroling song

16: Potter's purchase

17: Little diamond

18: Have the nerve

19: Starch from palms

20: Banana oil and others

22: Nurse, as a zombie

23: Church recess

24: 'Sure thing'

25: Ragged

27: Band blaster

30: Corbeled-out window

32: Coated with hoarfrost

36: Constricting snake

37: Transmit

38: Pogo said 'He is us'

39: Ties up

41: Guys with gallows humor?

43: Musical pace

44: Tear apart

45: Unwrought iron

46: Online VIP

47: Job extras

48: Methodology (abbr.)

49: Bristles

51: '___ me think about it'

53: Peacemaker's prize

56: Ossuary

57: Flammable gas

61: Spoken

62: It may get plastered

64: Photocopier ink

65: Trig ratio

66: Brainwave

67: Any acetate, chemically

68: Skin designs, for short

69: Salon job

70: Oboes, e.g.

Down
1: Went by horseback

2: Hematite and galena

3: Share a border with

4: Unpredictable

5: Its depth is illusory

6: Wrap up

7: Honored, in a way

8: Antenna

9: Emulated Endymion

10: Testing

11: Word before opera or dish

12: Sty list?

13: Fruit for flavoring gin

21: Lively outing

26: Fashionable doggy?

27: Helps with the heist

28: Long green

29: Tropical trees

31: November winners

33: Internal notes

34: Nail file material

35: Force units

40: Divine dozen

41: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

42: Tibia neighbor

44: Type in again

47: Grand marshal's following

50: Bulb in a bed

52: The things there

53: Station

54: 'Cessa di piĆ¹ resistere,' for one

55: Underworld lingo

58: Players may up it

59: Exigency

60: Slips

63: Noah's second son





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