Crossword for Mon, 5/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Smelting residue

5: Write-off

9: Botches

14: Stead

15: Declare openly

16: Become accustomed

17: Bit to split

18: Root beer alternative

19: Jack of nursery rhyme

20: Source of bad taste

23: 9 - 5, e.g.

24: Eye liner?

25: Remote room?

26: Attack word

27: Didn't come home standing up

29: Dot follower

32: Cunning

35: Loafer, for instance

36: Turn on an axis

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

40: Blended-family prefix

41: Stag

42: Moves lightly on the wind

43: Bricklayer's item

44: Unresisting

45: Word before sheet or session

46: Crew implement

47: Zip

48: Starts of sneezes

51: Silly goose

57: Bad press?

58: Sworn statement

59: Bowling alley

60: Spice rack selection

61: Utter loudly

62: Dept. store shopper's privilege

63: Attack from every angle

64: Silly pair?

65: Rushes
Down
1: / or \

2: Carafe quantity

3: Almost eternity

4: Canine holders

5: Milky

6: Egg-shaped

7: Fly alone

8: Adult ugly duckling

9: Threw off

10: Detach, in a way

11: PETA anathemas

12: Sigma Nu, for short

13: Tennis match divisions

21: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

22: 'Farewell, François!'

26: Sow's sustenance

27: English county

28: Rioter's illegal take

29: Pitch indicator

30: Vote off the island

31: GI's diner

32: Stream

33: Golden Rule preposition

34: Chilled, in a way

35: Con job

36: Go postal

38: Wall Street commodity

39: Wise guy?

44: Writing pad

45: They may be civil

46: Beyond beefy

47: Absolutely necessary

48: Crude counters

49: From now on

50: Manuscript markings

51: Love handles

52: Pat response

53: Sacred bird of Egypt

54: Pajamas cover

55: Companion of dark and handsome

56: Borrrring




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