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ACROSS

1 Steer snagger

6 Gossip magazine couple

10 Disaster movie?

14 Knitwear synthetic

15 Budweiser buy

16 Like a soft persimmon

17 Rifle-twirling group

19 Not lopsided

20 Pin-up’s leg, slangily

21 Many millennia

22 In chess, they’re men

24 Facial signs of fatigue

26 Do a filling station task

27 Serpentine shape

28 Leave stealthily

32 “The Tonight Show” producer Michaels

35 Petty scrap

36 Dusk-to-dawn party

37 Desktop option since 1998

38 River through Lake Geneva

39 Had down cold

40 Trig, calc et al.

41 Basset hound’s danglers

42 Theater or cake features

43 Assess too hastily

45 Top the field

46 Bireme propellers

47 Places for gliders

51 Fastener on diapers

54 Clark of Metropolis

55 Infant’s wail

56 “Didn’t hurt a bit!”

57 “Call Me Caitlyn” magazine

60 Serve a summons to

61 Entrepreneurial Musk

62 Boxer’s earnings

63 Handicrafts-selling site

64 Cracker in many recipes

65 Brought the curtain down on

DOWN

1 Elks’ gathering place

2 Orderly arrangement

3 “Ghostbusters” goo

4 Note after fa

5 Like many company cars

6 Sports stars, to young fans

7 Seals with pitch

8 Mentalist’s gift, for short

9 Barbecuing wood

10 Monopoly square depicting a car

11 Word before bait or wire

12 Begin a Broadway run

13 Autograph hounds’ needs

18 Teeth that mesh

23 He may call you out

25 Dugout heckler

26 Builders’ diagrams

28 Mushroom’s genesis

29 Go downhill, in a way

30 State with certainty

31 Evergreens used in bowmaking

32 Like a wilted flower

33 Epps of “Almost Christmas”

34 Per-hour payment

35 Layered hairstyles

38 Playground game

42 Photo on a metal plate

44 Former Egypt-Syria alliance (Abbr.)

45 Suffer a lack of

47 “57 Varieties” brand

48 Blue ribbon, e.g.

49 Diligent worker’s hope

50 Prepare, as cabbage for slaw

51 Nasty habit

52 Send out

53 A whole bunch

54 Shoelace annoyance

58 Foreman defeater in 1974

59 ___ size (like Halloween candy)