Crossword for Fri, 22/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Richly-colored violet

6: ___ mater

10: Lower, as lights

13: Maui greeting

14: Parade spoiler

15: Soft drink nut

16: Let down

18: Without value

19: Be a stinker

20: Your father's sister

21: Nash forte

22: Records

24: She's a deer

25: Lightning

31: Home ___

35: Cephalalgia

36: Egg, classically

37: Workout output

39: Part of a hammer head

40: Some are dull

42: Dunderheads

43: Pest exterminators [up to 112 pounds]

46: Verbalize

47: Pleasant enough

52: Scope

55: 'Flee, feline!'

57: Expand

58: Tropical root

59: Where politicians aren't 'fed'

61: Harbinger

62: Life of Riley

63: Bury

64: Gaping mouth

65: Motion-carrying votes

66: Garment workers
Down
1: Man on a mission

2: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

3: Brown-___ (sycophant)

4: Plumed hat

5: Talk foolishly

6: Light a fire under

7: Reclined

8: After-dinner candy

9: Aardvark's tidbit

10: Silently sullen

11: Misfortunes

12: Stag or bull, e.g.

15: Protectors of certain hinge joints

17: Gloom

21: Not legally binding

23: '___ me think about it'

24: 'Blast!'

26: Caisson

27: Afternoon brew

28: Keeps cold

29: Quaker's address

30: Deep desires

31: Tip, as a fedora

32: 'Touch of ___' (Welles film)

33: Small and insignificant

34: It was neglected

37: Old-fashioned conveyance

38: Moisten

41: Smack, as a baseball

42: 'Shoot'

44: Uplifts

45: Ceremonial practice

48: Extreme pain

49: Big bully

50: Stock that drops in value

51: Pretty pitchers

52: Bit to split

53: Cass Elliot, once

54: Make java

55: Hang around

56: Investigator's assignment

59: Red or Yellow

60: Buried




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