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1D
Quite competent
ADEPT
2D
Our Gang girl
DARLA
3D
Decorative foundation plant
SHRUB
4D
Consumer protection gp.
BBB
5D
Respect singer Franklin
ARETHA
6D
Upstream swimmer
SALMON
7D
Dutch bulb
TULIP
8D
Britannica, e.g.: Abbr.
ENC
9D
Wrapping, as an ankle
TAPING
10D
Rover’s collar attachment
ID TAG
11D
Melville’s obsessive whaler
AHAB
12D
Stir up
ROIL
13D
Clearasil target
ACNE
19D
Fly
AVIATE
21D
Flies like a seagull
GLIDES
25D
Sufficient, in poetry
ENOW
26D
Cattle poker
PROD
29D
Low poker hand
PAIR
30D
Quaint lodges
INNS
31D
Hebrides isle
SKYE
32D
Many emailed image files
PDFS
33D
Train wheel guide
RAIL
34D
Suit filer: Abbr.
ATTY
35D
..D#hallowed be __ name
THY
36D
Dictation takers
STENOS
38D
Accustomed (to)
INURED
39D
Small fruit pie
TART
40D
Four-way __
STOP
45D
Without prejudice
FAIRLY
46D
Big name in little trains
LIONEL
47D
What an editor’s caret indicates
INSERT
48D
Sincere entreaties
PLEAS
49D
Busybody
YENTA
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50D
Dance in triple meter
WALTZ
51D
Wipe out
ERASE
52D
Mature, as fruit
RIPEN
53D
Desk light
LAMP
54D
Get an __ effort
E FOR
55D
Houston player, informally
‘STRO
59D
School-of-thought suffix
ISM
60D
Hosp. staffers
RNS
1C
Website pop-ups, e.g.
ADS
4C
Brush with liquid while roasting
BASTE
9C
Jeweled headwear
TIARA
14C
Morse code bit
DAH
15C
Electric razor brand
BRAUN
16C
Like some short-term committees
AD HOC
17C
Make a boo-boo
ERR
18C
Hotel lobby supervisor
BELL CAPTAIN (“dinner bell”)
20C
Bathtub insert
PLUG
22C
Texter’s “Wish you hadn’t said that!”
TMI
23C
Practical, as a solution
VIABLE
24C
Working the room, as at a banquet
TABLE-HOPPING (“dinner table”)
27C
Words before uproar
IN AN …
28C
Dipstick wiper
RAG
29C
Gumshoes: Abbr.
PIS
32C
Madrid museum
PRADO
35C
Little kid
TOT
36C
Went to the bottom
SANK
37C
Time of reckoning
DATE WITH DESTINY (“dinner date”)
41C
Is the right size
FITS
42C
Yea’s opposite
NAY
43C
Short, but probably not sweet
TERSE
44C
Sneaky
SLY
45C
Warm lining
FUR
46C
Feline king
LION
48C
Congressional majority, e.g.
PARTY IN POWER (“dinner party”)
53C
Nielsen of “The Naked Gun” films
LESLIE
56C
Canon SLR camera
EOS
57C
Indian wrap
SARI
58C
When one might have a mint … or where the first words of 18-, 24-, 37- and 48-Across can be found
AFTER DINNER
61C
Santa visitor’s seat
LAP
62C
Fable’s lesson
MORAL
63C
Rear, to an admiral
STERN
64C
Mao __-tung
TSE
65C
Unlike poetry
PROSY
66C
Blended ice cream drinks
MALTS
67C
Buddhist sect
ZEN