What a handshake may lead to Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HANDSHAKE (noun)
1. grasping and shaking a person’s hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
LEAD (verb)
1. be in charge of
2. take somebody somewhere
LEAD (noun)
1. the introductory section of a story
2. a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire

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Across

1. Near

5. Fashion's Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with "shoe"

9. Squeak remover

13. Look bad?

14. Not his

15. By Jove!

16. Offset, as something on a scale

19. It might be swiped for cash

20. Org. that was a frequent James Bond foe

21. Mo. setting

23. M.L.B.'er in a blue-and-orange uniform

24. Gad about at a banquet

26. John or Jane of anonymity

27. Bite at a bar

30. Job security, for some

31. Not just my

32. Mind-boggling designs

34. Like hand-me-downs

35. Rely on the hospitality of friends for lodging

38. "Star Wars" species on Tatooine

41. Sentiment on el Día de San Valentín

42. Card

45. Brewer Coors

48. Once once

49. Perfect serve

50. Hit the pubs

52. Had

54. Bygone initials at JFK

55. "Mr. Blue Sky" band, in brief

56. Be afraid to

58. Rainy-day game for children, whose play is punnily suggested by 16-, 24-, 35- and 50-Across

61. Capital on the Baltic Sea

62. Went through channels?

63. Medicinal name in the shampoo aisle

64. Short first step

65. Takes up, as some new pants

66. Pennsylvania city or its county

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Down

1. 'Impossible!'

2. "Ha ha ha!," on April Fools' Day

3. Not so happy

4. Therefore

5. Acting Oscar winner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

6. What's rounded up in a roundup

7. Earth or sun, for example

8. Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593)

9. Likely (to)

10. SEALS org.

11. Wine god of myth

12. House with a long-unmowed lawn, e.g.

17. Anchor or heart, maybe

18. Letters before Q, sometimes

22. "Decorated," as a house for Halloween

24. North Carolina athlete

25. Broadway's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is ___"

28. 'The Simpsons' shopkeeper

33. Ruling title that dates back to the Byzantine Empire

35. Course that may follow trig

36. Verbal hesitations

37. Chopper parts

38. Pokes in the ring

39. 2019 Brad Pitt sci-fi thriller

40. "I don't care what that cost!"

42. “— you in?”

43. Freeze up

44. The first one was delivered in 1984

46. Like a house built in a day, say

47. Long way to go?

51. "Sound" of a point sailing over someone's head

53. Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter"

56. Small amount of whiskey

57. Goals

59. It's not you, it's me

60. "You __ me!"

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