Crossword for Thu, 13/Aug/2020

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Across
1: Dangerous slitherer

6: Conjurer

10: Mountain lake

14: It'll make you red in the face

15: Bailiwick

16: Chamber music instrument

17: State after being coldcocked (and a clue to this puzzle's theme)

20: Came across

21: Mystique

22: Ocean motions

23: BB's and bullets

24: It's raised on the farm

26: Hazarding a guess: doughy metaphysician?

32: Assured of success

33: NBA target

34: Utmost

35: In the past

36: Heavenly bodies

39: Water temperature 'gauge'

40: Generation separator

41: Hit the horn

42: Marginally sufficient

43: Between Earth and Venus, e.g.

48: Digs of twigs

49: Off course

50: Small aperture

53: Type of arch

54: Band blaster

57: Movie shooter

61: Microbrewery offerings

62: Be idle

63: Hairdresser's offering

64: Dovetail

65: Look narrowly

66: Impudent
Down
1: Jack-in-the-pulpit

2: Cooked sufficiently

3: Air carrier

4: Teamwork deterrent

5: Designate again

6: Diacritic for a long vowel sound

7: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

8: Metro maker

9: Vichy water

10: Firming up

11: All tucked in

12: Thorny flower

13: Promontory

18: Akebono's sport

19: Leather sharpeners

23: Tap output

24: Rude person

25: Burn soother

26: Baal bondsman?

27: Choose a textbook series

28: Angle symbol

29: Bury

30: Narrative

31: Quaker's address

32: Christmas trio

36: Brook

37: Orchestra that plays light classical music

38: Romance novelist Victoria

42: Fifth calendar page

44: Trap in a net

45: Termagant

46: Large pitcher

47: Halloween bagful

50: Con job

51: Scrabble letter

52: Kind of column

53: Primordial sludge

54: Finder's cries

55: GI's diner

56: Mouse, to an owl

58: Mont Blanc, for one

59: Menlo Park monogram

60: Soup veggie




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