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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Thu, Dec 22, 2022

ACROSS
1. Pat or tap gently
4. Backtalk
8. Writing tablet
11. Inky black, to poets
13. Approach
15. Biblical high priest
16. Prong on a fork
17. Stone: prefix
18. Give a ring to
19. Ferber et al.
21. Direct toward a target or goal
22. Mountain range
23. Portuguese money of account (variant)
24. Accounting whiz (abbr.)
27. For each
29. Thailand, formerly
30. Took without asking
34. Single
36. Billionth: prefix
39. Unit of acoustic absorption
40. SW Asia republic
41. Burn superficially
43. Charged atoms
44. Lessep's creation
46. 1994 drama film starring Jodie Foster
47. Born
48. Related on the mother's side
49. Hearing organs
51. Order of Saint Francis (abbr.)
53. Heredity factor (abbr.)
54. Compass dir.
57. Having or resembling wings
60. Allow
63. Webber/Rice musical
65. Not women's
66. Peak District village in England
69. Came down and settled, as after flight
70. Bear (Spanish)
71. One who wires
72. Lacquered or enameled metalware
73. Call ___ day
74. Ancient Roman robe
75. Elected rep.

DOWN
1. Prevent from occurring
2. Stay
3. Child's nurse
4. Plant excrement
5. One (Scot)
6. Stalk of a moss capsule
7. Indian skirt
8. Lightbulb-shaped fruit
9. Silent film actress Nazimova
10. Deli pickle
12. Teachers' org.
14. Frolic
18. Window treatments
20. _-fi
25. Baking dishes
26. With great haste
28. Double-curved letter
29. Legislators
31. Mitch Miller's instrument
32. Actor's bit
33. Followers of ems
34. NW Algerian seaport
35. Nanny
37. Compass dir.
38. Stared
40. Frozen water
42. Flair
45. French article
50. Actress Charlotte
52. Soared
54. Grain storage towers
55. Vertical member of a panel or frame
56. Consumed
57. Mine, in Marseilles
58. For fear that
59. Small Philippine buffalo
61. Prepare for publication
62. Edible starchy tuberous root
64. Large container
67. Part of a journey
68. Epoch