Crossword.

MARCH

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Across

1. Shake hands after a negotiation (3 words)

8. Yahoo, for example

11. Spell

12. Watch

13. ___ man, comic book character

14. What companies ask shareholder to do to directors

16. Extra sale

19. Estimate the worth of (4 words)

22. The Depression was one

23. Should CFOs get paid this? (2 words)

24. File type

26. Identical

27. Card, of sorts

28. Winning Hobbit

29. A lot of ___ in the fire

32. Boat propeller

33. Starkly, as ambitious

35. Wrong color for the accounts

36. Dealer in stolen goods

37. Writer Houseman

38. Me in Paris

39. Financial reporting focus

42. Mendez or Longoria

43. To and ___

45. Quick name for key act

46. Getting, out of bed

49. Letters of Credit

50. For example

51. Investment measure

52. See 6 down

55. Baba or Muhammad

56. Tree

57. Devour

59. Recycle ___

60. View

61. Viper or Charger

    Down

1. Economic pressures (2 words)

2. Maintain your profit (4 words)

3. What every CFO should have (4 words)

4. Rolling Stones original record label

5. Request to the IRS, for example (3 words)

6. Negotiation failure? (5 words--goes with 52 across)

7. Coin of the ___ (royalty backed cash)

9. Ushered away

10. Small coin

15. ___ Bean

17. Ike and Tina, for example

18. Rejected

20. Seaweed extraction

21. Gladiatorial battleground

25. Actress, Lupino

30. Predatory sea birds

31. Colored

34. Local area network

40. Bank or honor

41. Do better than Wall Street expected

44. Newport locale

47. ___ proprietor

48. Atlanta locale

50. A Giant Manning

53. Auction activity

54. Swallowed

55. Sailor, for short

58. Attorney General, abbr.

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