spooky business { solution! }

ACROSS
1. Word with hat or magic
6. Overrun
11. Chart
14. Longest river in France
15. Island nation southeast of the Philippines
16. ___to Joy, Beethoven symphony
17. Former American Idol judge
18. Frighten
19. Spanish aunt
20. Bluff
22. More agile
24. Clamors
25. Alert
26. Scream
29. Frozen
30. Max von ___, Nobel winner in Physics
31. Former Chief Justice Stone
33. Delay
36. Attest
37. Rage
38. Carried
39. United
40. Fastidious
43. Long time
44. Keen
45. Borgnine
47. Liquefied petroleum gas
50. Declared
51. Atrophied
52. Supervision
56. Male ferret
57. rows
59. Genus of bacteria, familiarly
60. Cuckoo
61. Second largest lake in Europe
62. Heart chambers
63. Anti-prohibitionist
64. Sugar or Crenshaw
65. Beldam
DOWN
1. Boring
2. Ear attachment?
3. Elton John/Tim Rice collaboration
4. More lousy
5. Pickler or Martin
6. Bridges
7. Wood in Westphalia
8. In the manner of
9. Popular cooking wine
10. Cucurbit
11. Recurring theme
12. Goodbye in Grenoble
13. Greatly valued one
21. Key of life
23. Embarrassed
25. Joins
26. Shredded vegetable side dish
27. Suffer from
28. Had second thoughts
29. Understand
32. All het up
33. Theater box
34. Mars counterpart
35. Exploit
38. Brigands
40. Spooky Rolls Royce?
41. Temperature scale
42. Positive votes
44. Hot tub
46. Wood cutting tool
47. old-fashioned utterance
48. Wine region of southern France
49. Socket
50. St. James or Anthony
52. Jason's craft
53. Haul
54. Heroic
55. Persian word meaning 'king'
58. Wriggler
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