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1 Terra ___ (old name for Newfoundland) 5 Symbol for torque 8 Malfunction

13 1977 Lucas film 15 Jewish organization known for its outreach work

17 Dish featuring corn chips as a main ingredient

18 Regarding this matter 19 Took top honors

20 1871 Eliot novel 22 Stamp collector’s unit 23 Immigrant’s course, for

short

24 Syllable in oldies songs 25 Off-axis

28 Dial, e.g.

30 1924 Gershwin

composition 35 Self-referential

36 Bush denizen, for short 37 Lead-in to boy

39 2010 Bush

autobiography 44 Coupling device 45 Heavily involved 46 Actor Robert of 1970s’80s TV’s “Quincy, M.E.” 49 Early platform for The Legend of Zelda, for short

50 Colony members 51 1970 Harrison song 54 Wifey, with “the” 57 Looking skyward 58 Easy way to get information on something nowadays 60 Raising of spirits? 61 Exclamation that describes 13-, 20-, 30-, 39- and 51-Across 62 Fire

63 ___ chi ch’uan 64 Gymnastics event, informally

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2 Other, in Oaxaca 3 Pointless

4 “___ does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection”: Cervantes

5 Access

6 Bum ___

7 Amazon category 8 Secretary of state

during the Korean War 9 Place to find solutions in school 10 Plantation of book and film

11 Some paid rides 12 Aid in quitting smoking 14 Word before Day or World on magazine racks

16 Capital of Qatar 21 Scrape or cut

22 Office of the Vatican 25 Place for a 12-Down 26 Sloughed off

27 Like the baby in a 91/2month pregnancy 29 Highland patterns 31 Like the Atacama Desert among all places on earth 32 “___-hoo!”

33 Magazine founder Eric 34 Suffix with major 38 “Poor venomous fool,”

in Shakespeare 40 Playwright Eugène 41 Flying pest, slangily 42 Polish dumpling 43 Nervous

46 Shock jock Don

47 Sort with a high-energy

personality

48 “And the ___ goes to …” 50 Celebratory cry 52 T.S.A. tool

53 Letters associated with

a rainbow flag

54 Just

55 Baltic capital 56 Modern education

acronym

59 High throw