Crossword for Sat, 17/Aug/2024

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Across
1: Dangerous slitherer

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

10: Companion of dark and handsome

14: It'll make you red in the face

15: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

16: Chamber music instrument

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

20: Came across

21: Black-and-white divers

22: Ocean motions

23: BB's and bullets

24: Flowerless decorative plant

26: Hazarding a guess: doughy metaphysician?

32: Assured of success

33: Door clasp

34: Utmost

35: Historical period

36: Elaborate plans

39: Water temperature 'gauge'

40: Generation separator

41: Hit the horn

42: Limited time

43: Between Earth and Venus, e.g.

48: Digs of twigs

49: Enthusiastic

50: Small aperture

53: Song for two

54: Internet address letters

57: Movie shooter

61: Microbrewery offerings

62: Chopped chow

63: Bête ___

64: Dovetail

65: Assist larcenously

66: Cop show sound effect
Down
1: Jack-in-the-pulpit

2: Cooked sufficiently

3: Air carrier

4: Teamwork deterrent

5: Designate again

6: Think, redneck-style

7: Dollar competitor

8: Opposite of paleo-

9: Bearded African grazer

10: Firming up

11: All tucked in

12: Give the slip to

13: Minus

18: Akebono's sport

19: Leather sharpeners

23: Tap output

24: Pillow filler

25: Apart from this

26: Baal bondsman?

27: Well-versed

28: Angle symbol

29: Bury

30: Narrative

31: The others

32: Christmas trio

36: Brook

37: Police

38: Romance novelist Victoria

42: Small amount

44: Trap in a net

45: Nothing

46: At all

47: Atlas, Cronus, Gaea, and the others

50: Con job

51: Scrabble letter

52: Kind of column

53: Medicinal amount

54: Sound from a fan

55: Used to be

56: Small songbird

58: 'Caught you!'

59: Check

60: Polynesian paste




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