Crossword for Tue, 5/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Legs, slangily

5: Steeple top

10: Aromatic salve

14: Burn soother

15: Gin companion

16: Fossey's focus

17: Protective trench

18: Disliked insect

19: Lobster and beluga products

20: Change

23: Balaam's mount

24: Assist larcenously

25: Plant products

28: Cruise ship terminal

29: Like lakes behind dams

31: Bit to split

33: Curtain call response

34: T-bar offering

35: Wrongdoer's bane

40: What golfers try to break

41: Feed seed

42: Bulk

43: Fashioned

46: Cardinal

48: Grinders and choppers

49: Crooked

50: Biretta or beret

53: Stage of advancement

57: Loafer, for instance

59: Destroy by degrees

60: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

61: Southern roots

62: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel

63: Bounded area forming part of a whole

64: Leave in, to an editor

65: Practices punching

66: Tributes in verse
Down
1: Greek letter

2: Juicy plants

3: Encirclers of castles

4: Words with precedent

5: Disco pulser

6: More in need

7: Unsuitable

8: 'If I Were a ___ Man'

9: Sound on the rebound

10: Atomic number 56

11: They desert causes

12: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

13: Mag. submissions

21: Permanently injures

22: Japanese honorific

26: Tabu emissions

27: Stitch up

28: Polynesian paste

29: Wild bunch

30: Hole punch

31: Clued in

32: Carol's kings, e.g.

33: Wager

36: Water temperature 'gauge'

37: Male youth

38: Drops

39: Lurid

40: Per hundred (Abbr.)

44: Bear witness

45: Pooh's middle name?

46: Tailor or tinker

47: Riles up

49: Regional flora and fauna

50: Took the heart out of

51: Old-womanish

52: Loud bursts

54: Enlivens (with 'up')

55: Warm up, for short

56: Folded food

57: Methodology (abbr.)

58: Ring toss item?




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