Crossword for Thu, 12/Mar/2020

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Across
1: Way off

5: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

9: Rose red dye

14: Break-taker's number

15: 'Far out!'

16: Number on a tag

17: Silly goose

20: Adjective for some statesmen

21: Chest decorations

22: Double bass cousins

24: Teamwork deterrent

25: Mai ___

28: 'Don't give up!'

29: 'Here ___ nothing!'

32: Shocked

34: Uses the blender, in a way

36: Cumbersome boats

37: Most puzzle constructors

40: Up to the task

42: Looked happy

43: Brought in the sheaves

46: Name on the marquee

47: Flight from justice

50: Barrel of suds

51: Half a score

53: Desert illusion

55: Portal

58: Poorer, as excuses go

59: Treating on a couch, perhaps [38 points]

63: Have one's say

64: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

65: Formerly

66: Force units

67: Give this for that

68: Solar beams
Down
1: Act on

2: Dentist, at times

3: With fervor

4: James Dean's persona

5: Star pitcher

6: Average

7: Shower affection (on)

8: Type of guitar

9: Play postscript

10: Eyes

11: Sis or bro

12: 'PUSH FOR ___'

13: Court divider

18: Heavy shoe

19: Wild (over)

23: Ruing the run, perhaps

25: Sailors

26: 'Shoot'

27: Tag players

30: They get into sushi

31: Fraying spots

33: Difficult

34: Warm up, for short

35: Blue funk

37: Pennant

38: Mum one

39: À la King

40: First zoo?

41: Apiary occupant

44: Emulates Whistler

45: Art ___

47: Thin layer

48: CIA, e.g.

49: Mixes, as companies

52: Semimonthly tides

54: Shaving implement

55: Clearasil target

56: Frosty's composition

57: Sprawling narrative

59: School of whales

60: Undercover worker

61: Yang's opposite

62: Cut off




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