Crossword for Fri, 8/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Meadows

5: Soda insert

10: Take on cargo

14: Drive train element

15: Cycle part

16: Hulks pump it

17: Pump part

18: Speaks Pig Latin?

19: Mocked by imitating

20: Stage of advancement

23: Coat of many colors?

24: Man in a lodge

25: Frenzies

28: 'Daphne' division

30: Key chains

33: 'Honor Thy Father' author Talese

34: Impart gradually

37: Spruce cousins

38: BIG DIPPER

41: Deal with it

42: Left on the plate

43: Undivided

44: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

45: Brings in at harvest time

49: Word of thanks

51: Put up preserves

53: Tree fluid

54: Input for a recorder

59: Eyes

61: Works the soil

62: Soft cheese

63: Paper starter

64: Garlic bulb

65: Wedding entertainment

66: Golf ball pegs

67: Pumps up

68: Delight, as a comedy club crowd

Down
1: Calf catchers

2: Like Fantasy Island

3: Mutated gene

4: Leak slowly

5: Go bad

6: Use one's noodle

7: 'You ___?' (Lurch's query)

8: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

9: Adam of 'Batman'

10: Jungle vine

11: Pianist's passagework

12: She's a deer

13: Wrap up

21: Hammer parts

22: Surgery sites, briefly

26: Make money

27: Methodology (abbr.)

29: Span's inches

30: Computer data

31: Earthenware jar

32: Utter loudly

35: Amaze

36: Keep an eye on

37: Word with print or point

38: Traffic lane marker

39: In working condition

40: Shore birds

41: Dot follower

44: It may be financial

46: Having star quality?

47: Thin coating

48: Fleet

50: Zodiac transition points

51: Have a cow

52: Dunderheads

55: Uneasy tingling

56: Like some garage floors

57: Hoof-on-pavement sound

58: Reduces in intensity

59: Choose

60: Cry over spilled milk





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