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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Fri, Dec 24, 2021

ACROSS
1. Floor coverings
5. Posted
9. Naughty child
13. Housemaid
14. Mountain range southwest of Kyrgyzstan
15. Ascend
16. Diluted with white
17. Frustrating wastes of time
19. Compass dir.
20. Neckwear
21. Mouth or opening
22. Erode
23. Fast planes
25. Marina Del _, California
26. Fertile tracts in a desert
30. Plant excrements
34. From or relating to Ireland
35. Nights before holidays
36. Promenade
39. Laconic
42. Undesirable depression on a surface
43. Medicinal plant
44. Wear away
46. Electrical Unit
47. Middle Eastern gold or silver currency
48. Environmental prefix
51. Capri or Wight
54. Plant excrement
57. Director Reiner
58. Raised railways
60. Working for oneself (abbr.)
62. Appease
65. Suttee (variant)
66. Nest on high
67. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ferber
68. Singles
69. Nathan's nickname
70. Neighbor of Neb.
71. Drug cop

DOWN
1. Atlas contents
2. Collect or gather
3. Stories
4. A female animal or person
5. Indian skirt
6. Writer Wiesel
7. Tired old horse
8. The easternmost of the Lesser Sundas
9. Sis' sibling
10. Cause heat under the collar
11. Toward the sea
12. Trial
15. Like ___ of sunshine
18. "We ___ not amused" (Victoria)
20. Russian ruler of old
24. Bathroom plumbing fixture
27. Be seated
28. Compass dir.
29. Fragment
30. Spring feasts
31. "___ Maria"
32. Animal enclosure
33. Fast jet (abbr.)
36. Informal term for the mouth
37. In the manner of
38. Car dealer's back yard
40. _ Lanka
41. Period of immesurable duration
45. Raised platform
48. One of the Great Lakes
49. Small bed
50. Off-Broadway awards
52. Climbing, woody, usually tropical vines
53. Keyboard key
54. Connect, as a bridge
55. Length times width
56. Left side of a ship or aircraft
58. Inactive volcano in Sicily
59. Path through which fluid escapes
61. Plate
63. Sliced dessert
64. Increase
65. Manchild