Near failure, colloquially Crossword Clue

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FAILURE (noun)
1. a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
2. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
COLLOQUIALLY (adverb)
1. with the use of colloquial expressions

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1. Mensches

10. "Super Dry" brewer

15. Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect

16. Persona non grata

17. By an even stronger argument, at law

18. Stars to gaze up at

19. Not mad

20. Squishy projectile

22. Cackling carnivores

25. World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo

27. Miserly sorts, informally

30. Rift

31. Like a certain artery

32. Mango leftovers

33. The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one

34. Org. concerned with screenings

35. Wine leftovers

36. ___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express"

37. Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h.

39. It's mine, all mine!

40. NPR program since 1987

41. Two aces, say

43. Kind of roll

47. Comfortable

50. "Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot

51. Record of the year?

52. Drawing on another's life

55. Handle

56. Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga

57. Hidden element of FedEx's logo

58. Extremely difficult and ultimately futile

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1. Hit the hay hard

2. Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories

3. Not having company

4. What Odysseus' crew waxed on about?

5. Mahjong grouping

6. Org. concerned with screenings

7. "Really?!"

8. Zero out, in a way

9. Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes

10. Accounts for checking?

11. Compact, maybe

12. "My mistake"

13. Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II

14. Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025

21. Glenn who co-founded the Eagles

23. A lot of lot

24. Broadway show inits.

26. Psy-___

29. Fertile place

31. Swiss Army knife component

32. Aid for someone studying a culture

33. One who regularly takes a best friend out?

35. Princess who says "Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board"

36. Like some noodles and martinis

37. Habeas corpus, e.g.

38. Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards

40. Dormant

42. Student of Socrates

44. "Gymnopédies" composer

45. Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying"

46. Scouting trip

48. Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache

49. Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings"

51. ___ team

53. Gymnast Raisman

54. Enervate

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