The sun, e.g., in about five billion years Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

BILLION (noun)
1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
2. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
BILLION (adjective)
1. denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain
2. denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
YEARS (noun)
1. a prolonged period of time
2. a late time of life

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DERATING

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Across

1. Much mail to Santa

6. Rubbish destinations

10. Sultanate that controls the exclave of Madha

14. Mescal source

15. Tip line?

17. Sitcom set in a corner store run by a Korean Canadian family (2016-21)

19. Halloween vis-à-vis All Saints' Day

20. Hair color, e.g.

21. Cards' home

24. Humiliated (or honored), as on Nickelodeon

27. Like one preferring platonic relationships, informally

28. British singer ___ Parks

30. Museum with works by Hockney, Turner and Millais

31. Going down, in a way

35. Threw one's hat in the ring

36. Becomes uncomfortable, as underwear

37. Frightful

39. Type that's compatible with everyone, in brief

40. First president of the S.C.L.C.

42. Neutral color

43. Work well together

44. "C'mon, dish it!"

49. Chicken nugget shape

51. Stands to practice hitting

52. Causes of some burns

53. N.F.L. team whose name is a literary reference

55. Fills up

57. Scale range

59. Blather

60. "Bad Moon Rising" band, familiarly

61. Further

62. M.L.B. star Pete who holds the single-season record for homers by a rookie (53)

63. Map inset

64. End of a trail, perhaps

65. They're accepted at church

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Down

1. Athlete who shares his home venue with the Sparks

2. Enough!

3. Prime choice

4. They're found in dens

5. Sports and Arts, e.g.

6. Something to take in from a boat

7. Outside the typical biological setting

8. Dostoyevsky's denial

9. Spanish word on a U.S. map

10. Having lost interest

11. Where you might refuel after refueling

12. Miami is in it, for short

13. French word that sounds like a vote

16. Turn up

18. Rita ___, "R.I.P." singer

23. Composer Edvard

24. "Anyway, gonna move on now"

25. Name-dropping abbreviation

26. Not own

29. Schlep

31. End part of a violin bow

32. What might lead to a row at a party?

33. Forrest of film

34. Miscellany

38. Chain whose name came from a Boston hotel whose sign was too expensive to remove

41. Part of a cold pack?

44. Wine valley in the Bay Area

45. Green expanse

46. It was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana

47. One with an "I" problem?

48. Team whose logo contains an "H" on top of a star

50. It's not gross

53. Sway

54. Enough!

56. Base of a pump

58. "Ended, ___ it begun — " (Emily Dickinson poem)

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