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1 Children’s ball game 6 “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” band 10 Prefix with -logical 15 Plants cultivated for their sap 16 “Hey there” 17 Shown, as teeth 18 Request for aid in East Africa? 21 Suit 22 Resident’s suffix 23 Ones with X-Genes, in comics 24 Figure on the top of Paris’s Notre-Dame 26 Hoosier hoopsters 27 Call for cleanup in the Persian Gulf? 31 Uses cross hairs 34 “Traffic Crossing ___ Bridge” (pioneering 1888 moving picture) 35 Always, to Shakespeare 36 Berate 38 Turkish title 39 Cut down 42 Sale tag abbr. 43 Word before school or class 45 Chem. unit 46 Virus carried by fruit bats 48 To be, to Augustus 49 Slogan for a West African airline? 52 Shaman, e.g. 54 Smelting residue 55 Having a corner piece? 57 Southwest sch. with an enrollment of over 70,000 58 “The ___ of Horace” 62 Entreaty for a spouse’s emigration to Central America? 65 Bowl 66 “Perhaps” 67 No-frills 68 Domineering 69 “An Inconvenient Truth” narrator 70 Church council

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1 Hunky-dory 2 Three-time N.H.L. M.V.P. Ovechkin 3 Roadwork indicator 4 Door opener 5 It has its benefits: Abbr. 6 Toothpaste ingredient 7 Queen’s residence 8 Yes, on board 9 Who shouldn’t “let your babies grow up to be cowboys,” in a 1978 #1 country song 10 Let up 11 Arid 12 Segue 13 Let 14 One in a million, e.g. 19 Supermodel Hadid 20 Game played with 24 cards 25 Kind of spray 26 “My fault” 27 Subject of fingerpointing 28 Shield of Athena 29 Wordless denials 30 ___ Republic, state toppled in 1933 32 ___ Thomas, entertainer with a Presidential Medal of Freedom 33 Tatami material 37 Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns 40 “St. Elsewhere” actor Ed ___ Jr. 41 Peter Falk feature 44 Intensifies 47 “Great Scott!” 50 Harry Potter’s owl 51 Mess up 53 Cosmetics brand owned by Revlon 55 Attempt 56 Poi source 57 Light-years away 59 Anthropologist Fossey 60 Opera singer Pinza 61 Email button 63 “I think,” in texts 64 Short albums, for short