Crossword for Wed, 7/Oct/2020

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Across
1: Leveling wedge

5: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

9: 9-Down output

14: Tropical root

15: Scrabble letter

16: Black band of mourning (Var.)

17: Capping

18: State peremptorily

19: Dwells (on)

20: Source of bad taste

23: 9 - 5, e.g.

24: Four-poster, e.g.

25: American voters before 1920

26: Wander (about)

27: Use UPS

29: Eyeball

32: Ropes with weights attached

35: Comparison word

36: Oahu bash

37: Disease experts

40: Highlander's hats

41: Clearasil target

42: They may be passed in school

43: Devious

44: Get ready to shine?

45: Summer coat?

46: Tumultuous noise

47: Feline, to Tweety

48: Printer spec.

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

57: Asks for catnip

58: Fail to include

59: Football's contour

60: Man on a mission

61: Stag or bull, e.g.

62: Fortune

63: Collar inserts

64: Last word in prayer

65: Boulevard liners

Down
1: Secret store

2: Misanthrope

3: 1990 Best Actor Jeremy

4: Swabs

5: Said

6: Furious

7: Table spread

8: Little gull

9: Carry all over the place

10: It's a drag on a gown

11: Dumbo's 'wings'

12: PDA entry

13: GI's diner

21: Put down

22: Part of PABA

26: Wanders (about)

27: Did superbly

28: Golfer Irwin

29: Vote off the island

30: Miles per hour, e.g.

31: Smooch

32: Uses a bookie

33: October birthstone

34: Like a rickey

35: Nervous twitches

36: He has his pride

38: Major water carriers

39: Black flies

44: Salon tasks

45: Remove the slack

46: Bride's worldly possessions

47: Linen fabric

48: Mischievous type

49: Religious song

50: Skye and Man

51: Baseball VIPs

52: 'Far out!'

53: Pas de deux conclusion

54: State of unconsciousness

55: Shiite leader

56: 'Ix-nay'





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