Crossword for Fri, 18/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Way off

5: Stable mate

9: Certain food fishes

14: Butler, for Gable

15: Sesame starter?

16: Eyelashes

17: Letters

18: Fender flaw

19: Made a selection

20: Using both sides with equal frequency (like the letters in this puzzle's answer grid?)

23: Thawing agent

24: Van Gogh's love offering

25: Curtain call response

28: NPR has none

29: More lemony

32: Eeyore's friend

33: Fix loose laces

34: Melodramatic

35: Professionals who might get your back up?

39: Regatta participants

40: Traffic problem

41: Clearasil target

42: Razz

44: Dandy

47: Small amount

48: Divot material

49: It may be minor

51: Positron, e.g.

54: Held up, as a heavy weight

57: Folded food

58: Strong cotton

59: Ease off

60: Where cookies might crumble

61: Kane's dying thought

62: Compound in fireworks

63: Crimsons

64: Deep desires
Down
1: Fleet defeated in 1588

2: Got frothy

3: Legal excuses

4: Thing of the past

5: It's slower than allegretto

6: High point

7: Monthly payment, for many

8: Menu choice

9: Rub and rub and rub

10: Hula rotators

11: Peak stat

12: Fade away

13: In mourning

21: Dissuades

22: Crew implement

25: Big pig

26: 'Clumsy me!'

27: Toddler's constant question

30: Lambaste

31: By no means long-winded

32: It may be Olympic-sized

33: Ceremonial practice

34: Sesame, e.g.

35: Comedienne Imogene

36: Round of applause

37: 'Not only that ...'

38: Large boiling pots (Var.)

39: Take one's cuts

42: Logic circuit element

43: Time keeper?

44: Adroit

45: Some Texan VIPs

46: Entreats earnestly

48: Betray contempt

50: Fuddled

51: Players may up it

52: Lay macadam

53: Sailed right through

54: Prohibition

55: 'Shogun' sash

56: Wharf pest




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