Give 'Em a Hand
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Deere products
6. Captain's hook
10. Top-quality
14. Tax filer's dread
15. Soothing gel ingredient
16. Nose-in-the-air type
17. O. Henry literary device
18. Digit that may "stick out"
20. Skid Row bum
22. Romantic gift
23. Tax-deferring instrument: Abbr.
24. Like Aesop's grapes
26. Street tough's weapon
32. Bomb defuser, maybe
33. Tony-winning Tyne
34. iPhone download
37. Stratford-__-Avon
38. Libya's Gulf of __
40. The "A" of San Francisco's BART
41. Pro __ (for now)
42. Goalie's success
43. Well-behaved child
44. Klutz
48. Tot's "piggies"
49. Get busy
50. Song of praise
53. Act the sponge
58. Something to grease, so to speak
61. "Death Be Not Proud" poet
62. Nick's partner in crime-solving
63. "The More __ You"
64. Source of strength
65. Worked like Rumpelstiltskin
66. Blacken on the barbecue
67. Postal card cost, once

Down

1. Bill stamp
2. Enticement on a line
3. Gorgonzola feature
4. Chablis or Chianti
5. Salon worker
6. Mower owner's need
7. Zillions
8. In place of
9. Finder's reward
10. On liberty, maybe
11. What an albatross symbolizes
12. Norton Sound port
13. Falls back
19. "I kid you not!"
21. Really bug
24. Lingering emotional injury
25. Tex. neighbor
26. Very dry, as wine
27. Macramé medium
28. Focus of the Manhattan Project, briefly
29. III, to Jr.
30. Moo juice dispenser
31. Looie's underling
35. Jury member, in theory
36. Good buds
38. Fill beyond full
39. Currier's partner
40. "The Ice Storm" director Lee
42. Hardhearted
43. Paid to play
45. Provo resident
46. Dell dweller of song
47. Rocks in a bar
50. Wrestling finales
51. Straddling
52. Hosiery shade
53. Collar victim
54. Like a wolf, perhaps
55. Getting __ years
56. Soon, to bards
57. Don't allow
59. E-mail attachment, for short
60. Timber wood

Solution

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