puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Gandalf's stick

  6 Culinary creation

 10 Musical track

 14 Bert's roommate

 15 Regarding

 16 Inkling

 17 Duke or dame, e.g.

 18 Spherical morsels in fried rice

 19 Understands

 20 "Tell us!"

 23 Overhead compartment, for instance

 24 Reproductive cells

 25 "Just speaking my mind, as usual!"

 32 Traditional Mexican soup

 34 ___ Romeo

 35 An orangutan is a great one

 36 ___ of Man

 37 Peculiar

 38 Fired

 39 Place to treat yourself

 40 Measure the duration of

 42 Noblewomen

 44 "The reason being?"

47 Form of public transportation

 48 Joe server

 49 "You're such a hypocrite!"

 56 Pal

 58 Personal hero

 59 Copier company

 60 ___ fide

 61 Civil rights activist Simone

 62 Remove, as chalk marks

 63 Underworld river

 64 Site with craft shops

 65 Ten make a buck


DOWN

  1 Groups of reps?

  2 Stumble

  3 Not for

  4 Color in completely

  5 Experience regret

  6 cooby-Doo?character who wears a purple dress

  7 "Gotcha"

  8 Casual try

  9 Spray down with water

 10 Word after "smoke" or "Bat"

 11 Poems of aming service

 46 Financial expenditure

 49 Pint-sized

 50 Get ready for print

 51 Forever and ever

 52 Hatcher of "Desperate Housewives"

 53 British streetcar

 54 Shake, as one's tail?

 55 People who had a fling, say

 56 "Big Brother" network

 57 Spicy praise

 12 Court obstruction?

 13 Neon, e.g.

 21 DVR choice

 22 Reebok competitor

 25 Relative by marriage

 26 Color

 27 Ralph who ran for president in four elections

 28 Like a tired joke

 29 Moves slowly at the airport

 30 Sword with a blunt end

 31 Wines at many steak dinners

 32 Traditional Japanese soup flavoring

 33 Channel that airs NBA games

 37 Texter's "Wow!"

 38 Throw in the mix

 40 Stretched tight

 41 "Gimme that!"

 42 Wait in the shadows

 43 Attached, like a new building

 45 "And Just Like That ..." stre

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