Crossword for Thu, 2/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Unruly crowds

5: Core group

10: 'I'll catch it!'

14: Up to the task

15: Kind of acid

16: One working with Linux, e.g.

17: Make academic

18: Bloodsucker

19: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

20: Change

23: Balaam's mount

24: Table scraps

25: Take the lid off

28: Have a fling?

29: Grapefruit's cousin

31: Name on the marquee

33: Maw's partner

34: Welcoming gift on Maui

35: Wrongdoer's bane

40: Van Gogh's love offering

41: Feed seed

42: Naval post?

43: Took the tiller

46: Cardinal

48: Caisson

49: Crooked

50: Fancy marble

53: Stage of advancement

57: Chamber music instrument

59: Destroy by degrees

60: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

61: Frost's frost

62: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel

63: Companion of dark and handsome

64: Tobacco pipe part

65: Practices punching

66: Let fall
Down
1: '___ Mia!'

2: Reed instruments

3: Blemishes

4: Words with precedent

5: Amber and umber

6: Warnings

7: Vast extents

8: 'If I Were a ___ Man'

9: Sound on the rebound

10: Staring into space, sometimes

11: Kind of triangle

12: Lincoln loc.

13: Long time

21: Secures a ship

22: Daylight

26: Tornado siren, e.g.

27: Polynesian paste

28: Mai ___

29: Check

30: Hole punch

31: Mowed strip

32: Carol's kings, e.g.

33: Furry friend

36: Water temperature 'gauge'

37: Male youth

38: Drops

39: Lurid

40: PC bailout

44: Admire, and then some

45: Map abbr.

46: Tailor or tinker

47: Riles up

49: Regional flora and fauna

50: Synagogue scroll

51: Old-womanish

52: Uncultivated country

54: Enlivens (with 'up')

55: Warm up, for short

56: Skin designs, for short

57: Surgery sites, briefly

58: Byte fraction




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