Crossword for Fri, 9/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Coping device

4: Gaping mouth

7: Joke object

11: Unspecified amount

12: Slinky, essentially

13: Introduce, with 'in'

15: Estranges

17: Word of thanks

18: Tricked

19: Conceptualize

21: Electrical unit

22: Whichever

23: Business letter addressees

24: Put into piles

27: Confession topic

28: Darts about

30: Browser function

33: Scandal suffix

36: Antechambers

38: ___ fide

39: Show of affection

40: Humble

41: Pretty, in Dundee

43: Bug-eyed

45: Small whirlpool

46: Time for kickball, maybe

48: Male youth

50: Sow's opposite

51: Breakfast grain

53: In the past

56: Used to be

58: On

60: A pop

61: Magazine with an African-American audience

64: Constant

66: Contradict

67: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

68: Keeps cold

69: Obligation

70: Divot material

71: Wager

Down
1: Ancient lawgiver

2: Cordial quality

3: Itty-bitty

4: Liturgical headdress

5: Geometry calculations

6: Adam of 'Batman'

7: Bleacher creature?

8: Employ

9: Choked

10: Pt. of MIT

11: Sprawling narrative

12: Kind of pool

14: Backboard attachment

16: Not finalized, legally

20: PC bailout

25: Chimpanzee's hoot

26: Was a wanderer

27: Batting coach's concern

28: Utah's state flower

29: Kane's dying thought

30: Fall off, as the tide

31: One way out

32: It's underfoot

34: Finder's cries

35: Harbor helper

37: The limit, for some

42: Senate vote

44: Looked daggers (at)

47: Resort hotel

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

51: Large African antelope

52: Fought the clock

53: Quickly

54: French writer of ''The Balcony''

55: Table scraps

56: Where to find a browser

57: All tucked in

59: Preconception

62: Quill tip

63: In the time left

65: Sis or bro





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