AT LAST

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

Across

1. Workforce
6. Broker’s advice
10. Way back in the past
13. Many a video game level, e.g.
14. Inter ___ (among others)
15. Clue weapon
16. Fold in a knight’s protection?
18. Shell product
19. Toy that you can “rock the cradle”
20. Charged particle
21. “You beat me”
23. Smuggling sausages?
26. Cut up a rug
29. Ilhan and Ayanna’s compatriot, for short
30. Now hear this
31. “___ Raids Fridge” (The Onion headline)
33. Spot on X where one might slide into
36. “Do you want to see some magic? This squirrel-like thing?”
40. When to leave, briefly
41. Words to live by
42. Actress Prepon
43. Frl : Germany :: ___ : France
45. Business news
46. Two things found on island-based reality dating shows?
51. “Sounds bad”
52. Wood problem
53. Native Americans of Northern Arizona
57. Fish for breakfast
58. Crazy cool, in dated hip-hop slang?
61. Barleywine, e.g.
62. Soup veggie
63. Stay the night
64. Some merch table offerings
65. “I’m all ___”
66. Extreme suffering

Down

1. Try and convince

2. Riding mower brand
3. Private group?
4. It picks up the acoustics at a basketball game
5. Pres. who implemented Social Security
6. Sitting room
7. Nicholas Gage’s book about his mother
8. Swimmer Thomas
9. Leather used in some saddles
10. Cow college student
11. Mexican tropical fruit
12. Beginning
17. Like some car freshener smells
22. Canyon creator
24. “Welp, if you say so”
25. Depilatory brand
26. Satisfy fully
27. Suffering
28. “That was me!”
31. Prefix with beat or futurism
32. “Before I forget,” initially
33. Pfizer product
34. Farm female
35. Name on the marquee
37. Breadmaker’s need
38. Zeno’s home
39. Aardvark, by another name
43. “Tell ___ story”
44. “The Murder at the Vicarage” detective
45. Cooks cook it
46. Purplish hue
47. Back in the day
48. Puts a spell on
49. Device with a lint trap
50. Pawns for cash
54. Really, really
55. Job for a physical therapist
56. Very small
59. Breakers break there
60. They may be frozen in a lab

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