Crossword for Wed, 1/Nov/2017

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Across
1: Cookie fruit

5: Hunk of cheese

9: Party throwers

14: Bird with an eerie call

15: Measure off a distance, perhaps

16: Free from restraint

17: Not spotted

19: Lackluster

20: It's treated in a plant

21: Behave servilely

22: Acknowledges silently

24: Try to prevent, as an investigation

25: Not present

29: Crops up

31: Accent type

32: Harness race pace

33: Ancient mariner

36: Tended a squeaky hinge

37: 'In what way?'

38: Eager, to the max

40: Obtain

41: Mat wins

42: Tentacled creature

43: Carpentry activity

46: Incantations

47: Carry all over the place

49: Something to build on

51: Lines of work

52: Early manuscript versions

56: 'The Old ___ Bucket'

57: Triangular-bodied instrument

60: Holding areas for newcomers?

61: '___ Came You' (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)

62: Do without

63: By no means long-winded

64: Alderman's district

65: Secretarial fill-in
Down
1: Winter ailment

2: Charged particles

3: Depleted

4: Frosty's composition

5: Keg feature

6: Like a football

7: Star pitcher

8: Four-poster, e.g.

9: Arrogance

10: Surfing without water?

11: Total cessation

12: Slight degree

13: Kosher meal

18: Made into leather

21: Informal voucher

23: South Pacific wraps

25: Bug-eyed

26: Soft cheese

27: Refillable tableware item

28: Original sinner

30: Spreadsheet divisions

32: Word after paper or before skinned

34: Chemical group derived from benzene

35: Sales staff members

38: Legal challenge

39: Dr. No, to Bond

41: Fivesome on a five

44: Birch trees

45: Hot dog

46: Threadlike part

47: Porter's beer

48: Beat-up jalopy

50: Time waster

53: Take nothing in

54: Young'un

55: Not whole, as milk

57: Incidentally, in Netspeak

58: 'Caught you!'

59: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)




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