Take the ___ (acquire control) Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

CONTROL (verb)
1. handle and cause to function
2. exercise authoritative control or power over
CONTROL (noun)
1. a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
2. discipline in personal and social activities
ACQUIRE (verb)
1. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
2. gain through experience

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21. Regular 6 p.m. broadcast of daily events

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30. ___-weenie

31. Big TV network in the U.K.

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38. Vans from hotels to terminals and back

42. Sports org. at the center of a 2021 antitrust ruling

43. Ones crossing picket lines

44. Ending with lemon or orange

45. Rejected, as an application

48. Enjoy a book or magazine

50. Their are fore of them hear in this sentance

55. Gotcha

56. Series of push-ups or curls at a gym

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Down

1. Remainder of a cigarette

2. Word after rainbow or steelhead

3. Watery snow

4. "Gonna pass"

5. Anxiety-related condition, for short

6. Even if, informally

7. Des Moines denizen

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9. Purchase at a pump

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11. Busy buzzer

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23. Swerve

24. Does some copy desk work

25. Semiaquatic salamander

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28. Have a feeling

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33. Basic bird made in origami

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36. What two toddlers should learn to do

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41. Bygone Russian ruler

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47. Kind of golf that uses baskets instead of holes

49. Housing on a college quad

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52. Elaborate outfit

53. Quantities of paper

54. Treat with bananas and ice cream

57. Kill it, in a good way

58. Gossip, gossip, gossip

59. Positive poem

60. Something to pick up at a beach?

61. Celebrity gossip website

62. Word on a French wine label

63. ___ Solo of "Star Wars"

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