Super Mario character with a mushroom for a head Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

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MUSHROOM (noun)
1. a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
2. any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
MUSHROOM (verb)
1. grow and spread fast
2. pick or gather mushrooms
CHARACTER (noun)
1. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person’s qualifications and dependability
2. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
CHARACTER (verb)
1. engrave or inscribe characters on

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15. Brand acquired by Hasbro in 1998

16. Mauna Loa output

17. Car with a logo similar to the Olympic rings

18. Start of a counting rhyme

19. Slightly

20. Honorable conduct on the field

23. Recluses

24. On-schedule

27. Musician's gift

30. Fish eggs

31. Kid (around)

34. When hunting restrictions are lifted

37. Epic poem originally passed down orally

39. CPR expert

40. Pretense

41. Carnival diversion requiring precision

44. One-named singer who lives in an Irish castle

45. Bikini season, in Bordeaux

46. "Hmm ... I pass"

47. Word before data or deal

49. Peak in the Alaska Range

51. Slender e-cig

55. "You're free to criticize it" ... or a comment one might make about 20-, 34- and 41-Across?

58. Genderqueer identity, informally

60. Windowside perches

61. "Back in my day …"

62. Instrument also called the "sprightly companion"

63. Greek salad morsel

64. Gave the green light

65. Catches red-handed

66. "Duly ___"

67. They go for bucks

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6. Agenda topics

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10. ___ to fame

11. One preferring purrs to pooches

12. Actress Mendes

13. Old man

21. Spanish aunt

22. 720p+ resolution, informally

25. Bonkers

26. Gossip, from the Yiddish

28. It's kept by a metronome

29. Not fooled by

31. Meshed (with)

32. Thrill

33. Jay's reticent partner of filmdom

35. Ivy League school with a dolphin on its coat of arms, informally

36. "Is everything cool between us?"

38. Nonmedical childbirth assistant

42. Them's fightin' words!

43. Talked up

48. Arbor Day mo

50. 'Now I remember!'

51. Part of a heart or faucet

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53. Host with a mic

54. More than wants

56. Rural structure seen in a Grant Wood lithograph

57. Dart about

58. Seemingly for-EH-ver

59. Thunder setting, in brief

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