ACROSS 

  1. Japanese dog breed 

6. Pod veggies 

10. Scheme 

14. Went out with 

15. Edison’s middle name 

16. Take a shine to 

17. “Am not!” retort 

18. Reclined 

19. Mosque leader 

20. “___ Dieu!” 

21. Will Byers actor in Stranger Things 

24. Brain ____ 

25. Rwandan tribe 

26. Singer of “bad guy” 

31. Healing plants 

32. Norm’s ____ 

33. Taxi 

36. Ceremony 

37. Sean of “The Lord of the Rings” 

39. ____ mater 

40. Cave dweller 

41. Abbr. before a summary 

42. Tons 

43. French soccer star who won the 2018 World Cup 

46. Dissuades 

49. Mountain lake 

50. Star of Netflix’s Wednesday 

53. Do something 

56. Wrinkle remover 

57. Stadium cheers 

58. A loving person 

60. Nick at ____ 

61. Letter-shaped fastener 

62. Country rocker Steve 

63. ____-do-well 

64. Gentlemen 

65. No longer fresh 

DOWN 

  1. Singer Lambert 

2. Corn syrup brand 

3. Coast-to-coast hwy 

4. French possessive 

5. Shelley’s elegy to Keats 

6. Sense of taste 

7. Valley where David fought Goliath

8. Hertz rival 

9. Approve 

10. Statue base 

11. Green beans 

12. Giraffe’s cousin 

13. Short-term workers

22. Mine find 

23. Corn covering 

24. Run away 

26. Cutting remark 

27. Figure skater Malinin 

28. Football Hall-of-Famer Ronnie 

29. The “I” in IV 30. Law, in Lyon 

33. Hoof sound 

34. Jane Hamilton’s “_ ___ of the World” 

35. Commanded 

37. Every variety 

38. Reagan’s “Star Wars” prog. 

39. Mathematician Turing 

41. Supermodel Banks 

42. Rubs the wrong way 

43. Original Easy-Bake Oven toy company 

44. Explosive experiments 

45. Newsstand buy, for short 

46. Spirit of Islamic myth 

47. Spooky 

48. Fed. security 

51. Hindu queen 

52. Wed. follower 

53. Gillette brand 

54. Spreadsheet unit 

55. Beech or birch 

59. Cheerios grain

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