puzzle

ACROSS

  1 "Slippery" trees

  5 Talk online

  9 Western movie star?

 14 He worked with pairs

 15 Corker

 16 Novelist's needs

 17 Kind of starch or pudding

 18 Gelatin made from seaweed

 19 Feels apprehension

 20 "Please consider it"

 23 Smallest in magnitude

 24 Set the tempo

 25 Track record?

 28 Be in the wrong

 29 Desk drawer item

 33 Like the desert of Sinai

 34 Buddy

 35 "___ de lune" (Debussy)

 36 When to join an opponent?

 41 Modem units

 42 Having debts

 43 Tart role for Shirley MacLaine

 44 Extensions

 46 IRS form expert

 49 Yankee Clipper's brother

 50 Samuel figure

 51 Leading man in the theater?

 53 When to expect good results

 58 Alaskan native

 60 Masquerade-ball mask

 61 Poker money

 62 Painter's plaster

 63 Nasty boss

 64 One between 12 and 20

 65 All finished, as dinner

 66 Front part of a plane

 67 ___ Park (FDR home site)

DOWN

  1 Store on a farm

  2 Idler

  3 Hungarian

  4 Discourages flies

  5 Hardly nude

  6 "Les Miserables" author

  7 McLean and Loretta's sitcom co-star

  8 Dr. Seuss' Yertle, say

  9 Having two equal lobes

 10 Yemen coastal city

 11 Freeloader

 12 Long-snouted fish

 13 Lion's suffix

 21 Prenatal cradle

 22 Mediterranee, e.g.

 26 Lake or canal

 27 Stretch in a seat

 30 Charles Dutton title character

 31 What Hester Prynne wore

 32 Council

 33 Industrial waste

 34 End of a musical composition

 35 Big count

 36 Footnote abbr.

37 Vegas card game

 38 Most pleasing to the palate

 39 Even number

 40 Coal site

 44 The whole nine yards

 45 Arness TV role

 46 Bush veep

 47 Threw things at

 48 Garfield's girlfriend

 50 Noted stationer

 52 Mower's path

 54 Firecracker feature

 55 Type of '60s dancer

 56 Relative of mine?

 57 Tapered weapon

 58 What candles may signify

 59 ___ & Perrins (steak sauce) 

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