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1 Harley-Davidson bike, in slang 4 Assume the role of 9 Like Vatican affairs 14 Plains tribe name 15 Emulate Picasso or Pollock 16 “Too rich for my blood” 17 Place to pay the going rate? 19 Skin abnormalities 20 Dummies 21 Dennis the Menace, for one 23 Former G.M. compact 24 Margarine 25 Put at risk 29 Affectedly polite 31 Exactly right 32 Former Nevada senator Harry 34 How Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic 35 Something that might be thrown behind a teacher’s back 40 Bowling venue 41 Input for fivethirtyeight. com 42 Like Baroque architecture 44 Purchase payment plan 49 In all probability 52 Add punch to, as the punch 53 ___ pro nobis 54 Cardinal’s insignia 55 Florida senator Rubio 56 “O death, where is thy ___?”: I Corinthians 58 Masterpiece waiting to be found … or a hint to the words in the circled letters 61 Right-hand page of an open book 62 People eaters, maybe 63 Work of Horace 64 Namely, in Latin 65 “Toodles” 66 Room with an easy

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1 “Oh, goody!” 2 Peter with eight Academy Award nominations (and, sadly, zero wins) 3 ___ Globes 4 iPad downloads 5 “Silent” prez 6 ___ Maria 7 W.W. II Allied landing site in Italy 8 Philatelist’s buy 9 Polaroid, e.g. 10 Part of the brain believed to control emotion 11 Neptune’s Greek counterpart 12 Big name in car parts 13 Capts.’ inferiors 18 Booty 22 Rocket launch site 25 Taunt 26 “On the Waterfront” director Kazan 27 “I’m not kidding!” 28 Cincinnati-to-Philadelphia dir. 30 1974 top 10 foreignlanguage hit 33 Double-___ recession 35 Repeated word for word 36 “The Vampire Chronicles” author 37 The “them” in “Let them eat cake” 38 Restaurant freebie 39 The “thing,” to Hamlet 40 Cut (off) 43 Letters on many ambulances 45 King of comedy 46 Mars, for example 47 Give in (to) 48 Guards at Buckingham Palace 50 One of the Three Musketeers 51 Singer Mary J. ___ 55 ___ Verde National Park 56 Guru’s title 57 Tricked but good 59 “Dr.” who co-founded Beats Electronics 60 Actress Susan