Crossword for Thu, 31/Aug/2023

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Across
1: '___ is Your Life'

5: Bloke

9: A runner may break it

13: Use a whetstone

14: Any Roy Rogers flick

16: Pretty good

17: Arm bone

18: Prefix with vitamin

19: 'I'll catch it!'

20: Big blow

22: Ends of vertebral columns

24: Calf meat

26: Operate the rudder

27: Groups of staff officers

29: Cherub's superior

33: Take one's cuts

34: Window parts

37: Bullriding venue

38: Skunk's funk

40: Besmirches

42: Small songbird

43: Go along

45: Unskilled laborers

47: Man in a lodge

48: Perform another MRI

50: Hooked claws

52: Circumvent

55: Mountain lion

56: Diversion

60: Neuters, as a horse

63: Jailbirds

64: Diplomat

66: Copter's cousin

67: Dove's domicile

68: Rolling musician?

69: Freshly

70: Trampled (on)

71: Indication

72: What Wendy does to reattach Peter's shadow

Down
1: Like so

2: Romance novelist Victoria

3: Groundbreakers

4: Burned superficially

5: Dot follower

6: ___ monde (society)

7: Bodybuilder Charles

8: It meant little to de Gaulle

9: PITCHER

10: Analogous

11: Plate of glass

12: Spots

15: Gets to

21: 'Total Recall' planet

23: Ballpark beverage

25: Island souvenirs

27: Mooch

28: Sow's sustenance

30: It may give you a rush

31: Strips

32: Goose sound

33: Big pig

35: A white one is small

36: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

39: Took a break

41: Go postal

44: Roof rim

46: Counterfeit coin

49: Celebrities

51: Ends

53: Fender bender nicks

54: Short stanza concluding a poem

56: Dept. store shopper's privilege

57: Scene of many a werewolf tale

58: Golden Rule preposition

59: Use a grasping device at the barbecue

61: Girls' books hero Nancy

62: Scatters seeds

65: Craving





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