Crossword

ACROSS

1 Three- player card game 5 Thumbnails 10 "Then it's settled" 14 "Little" girl of early comics 15 Flynn of old Hollywood 16 Napoleon exile spot 17 Jewish month after Shevat 18 Sung syllables 19 Like a useless tire 20 Back fill x 3 23 Sculpting materials 24 Decreases in strength 25 Ancient 28 A pair's air 30 "Buona ___" ( Italian greeting) 31 Cause to laugh 33 Scholastic stat 36 Back fill x 4 40 "What ___ the odds?" 41 Fabled slipper material 42 Place of desertion 43 Bit of defamation 44 Steal gas, in a way 46 Follow as a result 49 Birchbark craft 51 Back fill x 3 57 Shot for one? 58 Baking need 59 Lake that's great 60 Certainly not for 61 Top-___ ( golf ball brand) 62 Move merchandise 63 Medical advice, often 64 Jazzy instruments 65 Ooze through cracks

DOWN

1 Concrete section 2 African antelope 3 Winged 4 Traitor 5 Group of four 6 Deck out 7 Sticking points on crows? 8 Caffeine- containing nut 9 Kill, as a dragon 10 Beat in competition 11 DeGeneres of TV 12 Decrease 13 Plasterwork backers 21 Addition shape, sometimes 22 Dinner jacket material, sometimes 25 Fishing in the Atlantic, e. g. 26 Reverse or drive, e. g. 27 Scottish Gaelic 28 All couples 29 Apollo letters 31 Way, way off 32 Title for a married woman 33 "Fancy that!" 34 Game played with horses and mallets 35 Prayer's end 37 Like bodies on beaches 38 Winter ailment 39 Something tested on the vine 43 Naturally bright 44 Makes noise at night 45 Letters from a poor gambler 46 Painter Degas 47 Not a soul 48 Belts, as flies 49 ___ de Guerre ( French military award) 50 Type of angle or pain 52 Cut-___ ( short shorts) 53 ___ podrida ( Spanish stew) 54 Fruit bearer 55 Make upset 56 Cry like a pup