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1 Interjection derived from the Latin for “weary”

5 Peak

9 Rips off

13 Food ___ (post-Thanksgiving meal condition) 14 Innocent sort

16 Sal’s canal, in song

17 & 18 What a boastful

guy might do 20 Wouldn’t settle, say 22 Exhibits

23 Condemned

25 Save for later

26 What comes before a clue?

27 ___ NFL

(video game franchise) 30 Antarctica’s

___ Ice Shelf 31 They’re often made at icebreakers

33 Dr. of verse

35 & 37 Start of

an ethical rule

40 Prop for Gandalf 42 “Grease” high school 44 Twitter site

47 Singer Nicks

49 Fight

50 Rejoice 52 Formal term for the gap suggested by 17/18-, 35/37- and 54/57-Across

54 & 57 Overextended 58 Tiny treasures

from the sea

60 Dots in la mer 62 Language known

to its users as 63 Way up

64 In addition

65 Quit

66 Come ___ surprise 67 Celebration DOWN 1 It’s the law 2 Something to tie up 3 Become in life

4 Fills

5 German cry

6 Put in one’s two cents, with “in”

7 Does sumthing wrong?

8 University near

Greensboro

9 Did a dry run

10 Jesse who pitched in a record 1,252 major-league games 11 Demographic statistic 12 Faculties 15 Cause for a suspension, in brief 19 Giants’ grp.

21 Early TV network competing with NBC, ABC and CBS 23 Most movie explosions these days, for short 24 Some Jamaicans, informally

28 Job listing abbr. 29 Burrowing South American rodent 32 Found, as grub

34 Most retiring 36 ___-mentioned 38 Rising notes? 39 Dieter’s goal 41 Gangsters’ wear,

in old movies

43 Place for a shepherd 44 Centaur who was killed

by Hercules

45 Black belt, e.g.

46 “You betcha!” 48 Quintet instrument 51 Weak punch? 53 Dickens’s Fagin, e.g. 55 Paris’s Pont ___ Arts 56 “Toodles!”

59 Above capacity, for short 61 Harden