Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Grand in scope

  5 Plant that thrives in the shade

 10 Round fastener

 14 Coloring on the walls, e.g.

 15 Hydrox cookies inspired them

 16 Like a highway with many lanes

 17 Squad cars?

 19 Enduring symbol

 20 Garfield's girlfriend

 21 African fly that anagrams to "sestet"

 23 Intended

 24 Wetland on a certain migratory route?

 27 Use a crowbar

 28 Gondolier's stick

 30 Born yesterday, figuratively

 31 Grid glitches

 35 Father of Goneril and Regan

 36 Places to buy an eyepatch and a parrot?

 38 Play-of-color stone

 40 Empowered women in some stories

 41 Superlative in many a one-star review

 43 Mahershala of "Moonlight"

 44 Apt mo. to open an IRA?

 47 Like a well-fed pig?

 51 String quartet member

 53 More risky

 54 Country estates

 55 One may hold other beach toys

 57 Unconventional military activities, and this puzzle's theme

 59 Skater's jump

 60 Certain speech impediments

 61 Kiss, in Spanish

 62 Not as much

 63 Follow as a consequence

 64 Garden with a forbidden tree

DOWN

  1 Pitch tents

  2 Less convincing, as an excuse

  3 Not out of bounds

  4 Andy on Bravo

  5 Pegboard feature

  6 Chi-Town airport code

  7 Take care of

  8 Many a classical statue, now

  9 Mules' fathers

 10 "Heidi" setting

 11 Diplomatic details

 12 Big stir

 13 One might have a felt tip

 18 Performing here and there

 22 Top score, or half a score

 24 Persona non ___

 25 Some reproductive cells

 26 Each

 29 Not much

 31 Coastal disasters

 32 Jewel

 33 Assignment that may have a bibliography

 34 "Falling Up" author Silverstein

 36 Mocking imitations

 37 Actress Wilde or Colman

 38 Cries of pain

 39 Sen. or rep.

 42 Weed ingredient, briefly

 44 Played unaccompanied

 45 Go by

 46 Transfer, as from parent to child

 48 Airplane seating option

 49 Celebrity chef Jacques

 50 Iron

 52 "How about that!"

 54 Shop tool with jaws

 55 Roo, to Pooh

 56 Woodcutter's tool: Var.

 58 PC core

 

Solution

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