precarious positions { solution! }

ACROSS
1. Crunch
6. Decorative finish
11. Pawn
14. Hover
15. Former Attorney General Edwin
16. Gestured parlance, for short
17. Nerve-wracking vantage point?
19. Actress Long of Soul Food
20. Old Ottoman ruler
21. Football Hall-of-Famer coach Don
22. Ones in Arles
23. Lou Gehrig's number
24. They fail to keep up
27. Unstable place?
31. Beach Boys member Mike
32. "Time ___ My Side" (Stones hit)
33. Scotch bonnet
36. Jump on the ice
37. In tune
39. Voiceless sound
40. Turkish neighbor, in brief
41. Boursault alternative
42. Duck genus
43. Location of ghost sightings?
48. Energy option
50. Lukas of Witness
51. Hollywood author Anita
52. History
54. Nanki-___, Yum-Yum's suitor
57. Puffin relative
58. Where ecstasy might be found?
61. Final ending, to a Brit
62. "___ was your age..."
63. Ernie Bushmiller character
64. Homer's neighbor
65. Low ranking Anglo-Saxon workers
66. Energy option
DOWN
1. Gardening tool
2. Say Anything... actress Skye
3. Kempt
4. Purpose
5. You or I, for example
6. Cry from an accident victim
7. French physicist and Nobelist Louis
8. Fine print, perhaps
9. Sun Devils sch.
10. Matsue moolah
11. Popular sandwich ingedient
12. Basket material
13. It can hold its liquor
18. Clunk
22. SEAL's grp.
23. 48 Across, for one
25. About ___, Hugh Grant vehicle
26. Author
27. Regretful comment
28. Famed theater name
29. Like some flights
30. Climbed Mount Marcy, say
34. Shrinking salty water body
35. Seller's gds.
37. "Find us on Facebook ___ Twitter"
38. "Hey ___" (Steely Dan song)
39. Drains
41. Not ___ long shot
44. Some LPs or CDs
45. In other words
46. Breakfast menu option
47. They may choose 46 Down
48. Modest
49. Instigate
53. Department of France
54. Canvass
55. Return of the Jedi dancing girl
56. Words before 'about'
58. Run a tab
59. Outdated recording opt.
60. Bossy call
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