Crossword for Tue, 13/Dec/2016

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Across
1: Mr. Big, e.g.

6: Neatnik's nemesis

10: Borrrring

14: Cycle part

15: Soft drink nut

16: Pumice source

17: Farms

19: Spoken

20: Scattered, like seeds

21: Cheap cigar

23: Kin of croissants

26: Teen faves

27: Vexed

28: Introduction

31: Bodybuilder Charles

32: Bracelet bit

33: Eyes

37: Conductance units

38: Flying solo

39: Answering-machine sound

40: Trees yielding elastic wood

41: It's involved in inspiration

42: Slight degree

43: Wishes fervently

45: Seasoned, as peanuts

46: Zeal

49: Most painful to the touch

50: Knockout

52: Shaker contents

53: Dollar competitor

54: Sign that changes the pitch of a note

60: Make healthy again

61: Eerie sound

62: Narrative

63: Piano's 88

64: Acct. summary

65: Motif
Down
1: Speed meas.

2: 'What have we here?'

3: Leg, to Legs Diamond

4: Employ

5: Payers of flat fees?

6: Makes distorted

7: Deal with a shylock

8: Trite

9: Striped fish

10: Red Cross vehicle

11: Slowly, to Solti

12: Profit

13: Compels to go

18: Related

22: Garbage bag closer

23: Hit the showers

24: Give permission for

25: Bad places for stone throwers

27: Slightly tainted

28: Unskilled laborers

29: 'You ___?' (Lurch's query)

30: Pindar product

32: Down in the dumps

34: Flat rates?

35: Bring about

36: Stepped on it

38: Mont Blanc, for one

42: Most likely to elicit a pucker

44: Food scrap

45: Listened to the bears

46: By surprise

47: Ziegfeld offering

48: Milk farm

49: John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo

51: Southern roots

52: Con job

55: Portable bed

56: Utmost

57: Water temperature 'gauge'

58: Get ready for a fight

59: Old soap ingredient




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