Crossword for Sat, 6/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Unit of oil production, briefly

4: Introduction

9: Rosary pieces

14: Grassland

15: Baby bug

16: Professional slang

17: Balaam's mount

18: Be in store for

19: Eurasian forest

20: They're hot

23: Quill tip

24: Summer ermines

25: Public personae

27: Like cherries jubilee

28: Parlor piece

30: Type of training

33: Like a couch potato

37: She may get sheared

38: Fence pickets

39: Stick on a table

40: Trims

43: Nice thoughts

45: Exposes

46: Whichever

47: Burst of speed

50: Treeless plain

54: McBride of 'Boston Public'

55: Big books

59: Dressing choice

61: Pep (up)

62: Kook

63: Magazine copy

64: They're often preheated

65: Employ

66: Equals

67: Thick

68: A pop

Down
1: Gives everything away

2: Attack from every angle

3: Catch with a rope

4: Credit cards

5: Least refined

6: Spoken

7: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

8: Perth pal

9: Wicket defender, in cricket

10: Long time

11: Getting on in years

12: Stray from the herd

13: Wild guesses

21: Ankles, anatomically

22: Splits apart

26: Aardvark's tidbit

28: Strikes from a proof

29: Roman date

30: Four-poster, e.g.

31: Electrify

32: Brief time, briefly

33: Stuff to the gills

34: Star pitcher

35: Cry over spilled milk

36: 'Sure thing!'

38: Where to find favors

41: 'Shogun' sash

42: Cattle locales

43: Impassioned

44: Not the original color

46: Poplar trees

47: Certificate

48: Cycle part

49: Dishwasher cycle

51: Picture in a locker

52: VCR button pushed for a snack break

53: Any acetate, chemically

56: Stumblebum

57: Still in play

58: Where cookies might crumble

60: Varlet





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