CROSSHARE
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Non Russian Russian leader?
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Horizontales
  1. 1A
    Non Russian Russian leader?
  2. 5A
    Gods___ or book___
  3. 9A
    Almost adjacent
  4. 15A
    Spot on a mall map (you are)
  5. 16A
    Chimney black
  6. 17A
    “Waitress, your dish is ready!!”
  7. 19A
    Tick off
  8. 20A
    Palindrome (phrase): squash no tails
  9. 22A
    Admit the crime
  10. 25A
    Exists
  11. 26A
    Inc. alternative
  12. 27A
    AA, for one, in short
  13. 28A
    Leaning on
  14. 30A
    Statute with a built-in expiration date
  15. 33A
    Outdoors focused Co-op store
  16. 34A
    Pgrm. that provides training and development tools for staff, supervisors, and managers, or a puzzle archaic misspelling of a common lotion ingredient
  17. 35A
    “___ mouse!”
  18. 36A
    *Palindrome (phrase): a brief summary of “The Shinning”, perhaps
  19. 42A
    *You before before you (43a *)
  20. 43A
    *uoy erofeb erofeb uoY (42a *)
  21. 44A
    *Common hwy descriptor
  22. 45A
    *Uses a mouse catching contraption, say
  23. 47A
    *Words unlikely to describe this puzzle
  24. 51A
    *Many BBC accents
  25. 52A
    *”When ___ Rome”
  26. 53A
    *What a GED receiver likely didn’t finish
  27. 54A
    *Favre or Cooper
  28. 55A
    *Palindrome (phrase): Kris Kringle in space, perhaps
  29. 60A
    *Prefix meaning bad
  30. 61A
    *One who does a showing
  31. 62A
    *Hello and goodbye
  32. 63A
    *”Planet of the ___”
  33. 64A
    *Administrative division in Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, or a possible exclamation of frustration
  34. 65A
    *Not close
  35. 66A
    *Most commonly under-appreciated instrument in a conventional rock band
Verticales
  1. 1D
    Girl, in Guadalajara
  2. 2D
    Space effect, briefly
  3. 3D
    Colombian cornmeal cake
  4. 4D
    Concerning, briefly
  5. 5D
    The plural letter, or a clue to the start and finish of 29-, 30- and 31- down
  6. 6D
    Tag cry
  7. 7D
    Executes
  8. 8D
    NASCAR sponsor
  9. 9D
    Nein and nein and nein, in total
  10. 10D
    Directional ending
  11. 11D
    Love to pieces
  12. 12D
    Gym unit
  13. 13D
    More than doubled (yes, it’s an actual word… go figure)
  14. 14D
    Many a bonus features disc clip
  15. 18D
    Brief battle of wits?
  16. 21D
    Eyes
  17. 23D
    (*)Palindrome: A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly (the hostess in Shakespeare’s Henry IV.), meaning terror
  18. 24D
    Charli Baltimore’s “Pimp Da ___ Love”, or the possible name of a college for a single pupil
  19. 29D
    (*)Palindrome: short Kikuyu daggers or swords
  20. 30D
    (*)Palindrome: ecological evolutions
  21. 31D
    (*)Palindrome: like the details given for a police sketch
  22. 32D
    (*)Palindrome: harness ring
  23. 36D
    *One who uses that file-looking tool that you always saw in your family’s toolbox, but had no idea what it was for
  24. 37D
    *“Time ____” (has excess)
  25. 38D
    *”The Matrix” ___ Keanu Reeves
  26. 39D
    *70’s tennis star from Spain
  27. 40D
    *Top level in a hierarchy
  28. 41D
    *Russian pop duo consisting of Lena Katina and Julia Volkova, with a homophonic name to the word for arm ink
  29. 46D
    *Fried Jewish holiday treat that’s a mash-up? (Var., especially so that this puzzle maker learned to spell it this way, and it’s apparently not convention)
  30. 47D
    *Like a bad odor or a suspect situation
  31. 48D
    *Opportune moments, or another tennis star, who, ‘this time’ (see 39d) was born in the 70’s in Yugoslavia but represented the United States (#AccidentallyPalindromic)
  32. 49D
    *Not near your love
  33. 50D
    *Iconic deer
  34. 53D
    *Small remote fuelers, (al la 27a)
  35. 56D
    *English river
  36. 57D
    *”Golden Girls” actress Arthur
  37. 58D
    *Burgundy or Swanson
  38. 59D
    *Obamacare initials (#AccidentallyPalindromic)
  39. 63D
    *Medical abbr. for half of (love you Sendhil)
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