Boardroom bigwig, in brief Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. the corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BOARDROOM (noun)
1. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
BIGWIG (noun)
1. the most important person in a group or undertaking

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18. Redding who sang "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"

19. God played by Anthony Hopkins in Marvel movies

20. Church cross

21. Florence-based fashion house

24. Takes back a public statement

26. What a waiter might offer to start you off

29. Make a boo-boo?

30. ___ contendere (court plea)

31. Spud

35. Biting

37. ___ Kippur

39. Actress Bow of the silent film era

40. Light show tool

41. TV personality Kotb

43. Clan

44. Bit of movie magic

48. "Essential" product used as an anti-acne treatment

51. Take ___ of faith

52. Place for a seafood dinner

53. Classic Pontiacs

55. Arcing tennis shots

58. Condescending rhetorical question … or what you might say about 16-, 26- and 44-Across?

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63. "Seems right," folksily

64. Words a teenager might say with an eye roll

65. Says OK

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1. Mustachioed president who succeeded another mustachioed president in 1909

2. "Don't know why I thought any different!"

3. Gets hyped

4. Fury

5. Farmyard bleat

6. With deftness

7. Clarinet for one

8. Made level

9. Careful, this might be hot!

10. Act of Judas

11. Word with ring or roll

12. Hoity-toity one

13. Smooths, in a way

14. "___ boy!"

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22. Musical notation that means "with vigor"

25. Spot to drink a matcha with a Manx

26. Ocean prey for a 27-Down

27. Ocean predator of a 26-Down

28. Big to-do

32. Be in charge, informally

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34. Speech full of invective

36. Went back (to), as a prior state

38. Epitome of slowness

42. Director Guillermo ____ Toro

45. Expressed frustration, maybe

46. Beauty company whose Nasdaq ticker symbol is its name

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48. Risqué

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50. They're part of what makes you you

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56. Low voice

57. ___-mo

59. Org. whose staffers wear royal blue uniforms

60. Lenovo products, informally

61. Just get (by)

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