Crossword for Sat, 20/May/2023

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Across
1: Jailbirds

5: Word after union or comparison

9: Behaves

13: One-sided

16: Palinromic ship deck

17: Slow down

18: Sandwich fish

19: Play ice hockey

20: Emulate a couch potato

22: Court divider

23: Hits, raygun-style

25: Coves

27: More contemptible

30: Balaam's mount

32: Have markers out

33: Montreal streets

34: Garbage bag closer

35: Nom de ___ (pseudonym)

38: Had a bite

39: More saline

41: Merlot cask

42: Sleepy

44: Time-wasting bother

45: Like Antarctica

46: Droop

47: Player's peg

48: Deals (with), as a problem

49: Soft sound

51: Former Iranian ruler

53: Pouch in the body

54: Bailiwick

56: Well-versed

59: Printing liquids

61: Not pertinent

64: Stead

65: Proficiency

66: Weight allowance

67: Lobster and beluga products

68: Words with precedent

Down
1: Bossy's chew

2: Kind of column

3: Chip

4: Disreputable characters

5: Quite high

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

7: Spoken

8: Provincial speech

9: Liable

10: What the letter C is?

11: Musical pitches

12: Tiff

14: The rite place?

15: Show partiality

21: Ground grain

24: Travel smoothly

26: She may get sheared

27: Spoiled child

28: Mercury or Saturn

29: Crinkly fabric

31: Bristles

34: Small amount

35: Metro maker

36: Have the final say

37: Budgets make them meet

39: 'The Sweetheart of ___ Chi'

40: Roman date

43: What golfers try to break

45: Sticks

47: No great shake

48: West Point student

49: Excessive enthusiasm

50: Kind of acid

52: Detests

53: River residue

55: BB's and bullets

57: State tree of Maine

58: Ambassador's forte

60: Take to court

62: Musclebound brute

63: Grassland





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