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24th Birthday Celebration Crossword Puzzle

Theme: the number 24

Puzzle Grid

Clues

Across

1. Toppers for Scottish laddies' noggins

5. Clarifying phrase

9. Chip off the old silicon block? (abbr)

13. Where to gamble on a Portuguese-Chinese fusion

14. Arctic circle's nomadic bunch

15. Spicy, but not for sensitive palates

16. Cut to the chase with motorized teeth?

18. Repeated cries for help, in brief

19. Salmon that's not quite ready for the big leagues

20. 2400

22. Sesamum indicum

24. Single-channel sound, or a nasty bug

25. It takes 24 of these to make 53 down pure

28. Holy shirt for the devoted dresser

30. Wound up like a clock's innards

33. sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash

34. Plural bubbles on ancient seals

36. Religious TV network

37. Geomteric objict with 24 square faces

39. Spinster's card game or cleaning tool

41. NWS uses this when tornados are nearby

42. Famous race that lasts 24 hours

44. How Pierre might answer le telephone

45. Shorthand expert's shortened moniker

47. Baby blocker placed inside

48. Probable king oif Denmark in 624. Kinsman of Beowulf

49. US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1924

51. Picture puzzle that's worth a thousand words

53. Burner that fuels the chef's fire (two words)

56. Shocked silly, like a specter

60. Free Willy's species

61. Peaceful tools from swords, biblically speaking

63. Faithful to a fault, in ye olde tongue

64. Doing nothing, like a car in neutral

65. Santa's little helpers or Keebler's cookie crew

66. Gentle touches or flatfish finds

67. Speaker of the US House of Representatives, 1824

68. Pig's dinner or sloppy joe filling

Down

1. Himalayan wild goat with a woolly coat

2. Berry trendy superfood

3. Postman's burden of communiqués

4. This happens once every 24 hours

5. Odds are this is a chancy group (abbr)

6. Lumber-cutting plant that's a real buzz

7. Free online number checker

8. An indepedent type of disease

9. Toxic gas that's no laughing matter

10. Civil parish in Funchai, Maediera

11. Sets bloody standards for WHO

12. Unwanted growth that's not quite assist

13. In short, one millionth of a gram

17. Japanese change or Thai coin

21. Observed or well-known, in short

23. Abbreviation for a mile when at sea

25. With "the," afflicted with an affected coyness

26. Where one dined

27. Potato affliction caused by a species of Streptomyces

29. Fair-haired fun, perhaps?

31. Motionless or moonshine maker

32. Phrase commonly paired with with "the road" or "my rope."

34. This counts backwards from when times became common.

35. Lou Gherig's Disease

38. Where farmers sometimes store hay

40. US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1824

43. Halo for a holy head

46. Nosey sounds in phonetics

48. Tycoon Howard, born on December 24, 1905

50. Subject matter at hand

52. Degrees earned by some non-scientists

53. It takes 24 of 25 across to make this pure

54. Space to fill or field of study

55. A kind of bad cholesterol (abbr)

57. UK aircraft manufacturer of the Lancaster and the Vulcan, for example

58. Slowly leak like a lazy faucet

59. abbr, killer of puppeteer Henson

62. Old English weight that's not far from way

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