Hotly Contested
Across
- 1. Merchandise lines?
- 4. Dinner and others
- 9. Bit of sports info
- 13. Quilting meetup
- 14. Tool for small incisions
- 15. "King of the Hill" patriarch
- 16. Unit of corn
- 17. Off the right path
- 18. Range below soprano
- 19. Hockey team that's one side in the Battle of Alberta
- 22. Round roofs
- 23. Caustic cleaners
- 24. Playful bite
- 26. Police procedural with LA and New Orleans spinoffs
- 27. "OMG, stop sharing!"
- 29. More adorable
- 31. Dog show org.
- 32. Soccer team that's one side in the Brimstone Cup
- 35. Pop star Chappell
- 36. Old standby
- 37. Basketball team that has faced the Los Angeles Lakers in 13 playoffs
- 41. Top exec
- 44. National park in Alberta
- 45. Playground game
- 46. Let sit in water
- 47. Gateway Arch city, for short
- 48. Flatpack furniture store
- 51. "Green Eggs and Ham" author
- 52. Show based on Rachel Reid's "Game Changers" series ... or something 19-, 32- or 37-Across is involved in?
- 56. Green legumes
- 57. "Mating in Captivity" author Perel
- 58. Off ___ on
- 60. Sitarist Shankar
- 61. Former speaker of the house Nancy
- 62. Slime
- 63. Laudatory poems
- 64. Napped, perhaps
- 65. She's a sheep
Down
- 1. Purple yam
- 2. "The Traitors" streaming service
- 3. Made of baked clay
- 4. Corn flour dough
- 5. ___'acte (interlude)
- 6. Fake nail material
- 7. Like kale
- 8. Fashion
- 9. Counterfeit
- 10. Gelato brand
- 11. More anxious
- 12. MMA bout result
- 14. Internet delays
- 20. "___ Miserables"
- 21. Fancy neckwear
- 22. Genetic material
- 25. Post- opposite
- 27. Pad see ew cuisine
- 28. Flirtatious young woman
- 30. Flying saucer
- 32. Meat cooked in its own fat
- 33. Contents of un lago
- 34. Asian percussion instrument
- 35. NBA whistle blower
- 37. "Finding Your Roots" network
- 38. Mussed-up hair from a beanie, say
- 39. Taking an extended break from work
- 40. Cause to jump
- 41. Bravery
- 42. "Hold your horses"
- 43. Approves
- 46. Condiment paired with poivre
- 49. Maintains
- 50. Ford flop
- 51. That's a wrap!
- 53. Condition of a sale
- 54. Denny's rival
- 55. Part of a three-piece suit
- 56. One who plays for pay
- 59. She's a deer