Bug expert, for short Crossword Clue

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EXPERT (adjective)
1. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
2. of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
EXPERT (noun)
1. a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
BUG (verb)
1. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
2. annoy persistently
BUG (noun)
1. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
2. a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

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Across

1. "___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song)

5. Treat with kindness

10. Noted works of the Roman poet Horace

14. Brute

15. Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword

16. Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps

17. Unchangeable

19. Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth"

20. Hungers (for)

21. Early Germanic people

23. Move around the world

24. Expensive

26. Lift

29. Mardi Gras locale, informally

30. Ovarian sac contents

31. Fuddy-duddies

32. "Still ___" (2022 rap hit)

33. Meander

34. High lights?

35. Practice chiromancy

37. Disappear as a trail

40. “Central Park in the Dark” composer

41. Music box?

44. Diviner

45. Jerry's uncle, on "Seinfeld"

46. Box a bit

47. Tonkatsu coating

48. Deli device

50. Invite at the door

52. Extreme pressure

53. El __

55. Felt tired during the day, say

58. Words to a betrayer

59. “The Philosophy of Right” author

60. Like a computer with a running screensaver

61. How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues

62. *Risky endeavor, idiomatically

63. Onetime resident of the Winter Palace

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Down

1. Bolt

2. Certain Windows hard drive malfunction

3. Conspicuous

4. Stupid stuff it's fun to know

5. Level-ending foe

6. Educated guess (Abbr.)

7. Sgt. e.g.

8. Like lemon curd

9. Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names

10. *Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor

11. "Copy me"

12. Runner Down Under

13. Certain heir

18. Make in the end

22. Steady humming sounds

24. Locale for catfish or carp

25. What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix

27. Spanish 101 verb

28. Whom you might greet with open arms, for short?

30. Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth"

31. Prefix with botanist

33. "Sure ... if you say so"

35. Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle

36. Profess

37. Something Lincoln once led, for short

38. Italian time unit

39. Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points

41. *Book addenda

42. Chicken ___

43. Thrive

46. Narrow channel

48. Derisive look

49. OB/GYN offering

51. Crisply shown, as on TV

52. Wooded valley

53. Coop

54. Performed amazingly, in slang

56. Id's counterpart

57. The First State: Abbr.

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