Preferring brains over brawn Crossword Clue

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BRAWN (noun)
1. possessing muscular strength

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1. Tomato juice, e.g.

5. Cause to turn beet red

10. Cribbage pieces

14. Bean type

15. "That's brilliant!"

17. Bad to the bone

18. Ignores growls and grows grumpy

19. Something to atone for

20. Done, in French

21. Sonnets and others

22. "Hamnet" director Zhao

24. Bring up to speed

27. Low-level employee

28. Bean type

29. Company that helps you build a website

32. ___ loyalty (customer's faithfulness)

33. Movies such as "The Odyssey"

34. 'Lemme think . . .'

35. Meet an audience's high expectations

38. Lucille Clifton's "homage to my hips," e.g.

39. Spine-tingling

40. Noble gas used in car headlights

41. ___ Beta (people born from 2025-'39)

42. Results of labor movements?

43. Sci-fi saucers

44. ^

45. Light bulb units

46. Drag through the mud (metaphorically or literally)

49. Letters in boxes, perhaps

51. Drill insert

53. "I'm not sure ..."

56. Mongolian desert

57. Seriously?

58. "___ all work out in the end"

59. Quite slow

60. Lavish celebrations

61. Clarified butter

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1. Brewpub brews

2. Community appreciation

3. "Ahhh, this is the life"

4. ___ makhani (buttery dish)

5. Texas A&M student

6. “We’ve all ___ there”

7. Portmanteau for the feeling when something doesn't 35-Across

8. Sorority member, informally

9. "How odd . . ."

10. Attach, as a brooch

11. Word after "cutting" or "bleeding"

12. Sanitizer target

13. Remarks

20. Event where you might dip in and out?

23. Sole

25. Joins forces

26. Carve in an art class

28. "Rogue One" and "Sex Education" actor Alistair

29. "Do we need to choose just one?"

30. "Can't be done!"

31. Marvel mutants

32. Many an indie crossword site

36. Fruit with a broad base

37. Weightiness

44. Storage container with divisions

45. Droops

46. "Mother___ Connection" (Parliament album with a space theme)

47. Shark that can swim 45 mph

48. "Gnossiennes" composer Satie

50. Soothing succulent

52. One of 100 in Scrabble

54. ''Yeesh!''

55. Election day: Abbr.

56. Bar set, say?

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