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ACROSS

1 Matchmaking

services?

8 Co-star of “The Office” who played

Ryan Howard

15 In a classic form of diamond 16 Victor’s gloating cry 17 Rust 18 Technophobe 19 They may be fluid: Abbr. 20 Banished

22 Smidgen 23 Shepherd’s pie

ingredients

25 Venture a view

26 Miss

27 Radiates

29 “No ___ can live forever”: Martin Luther King Jr. 30 Street hustler’s game

31 Many a corny pun 33 Bravado

35 Lord Tennyson’s “The Eagle,” e.g. 36 Shaker’s cry? 37 Speed of sound 41 Baker’s shortcut 45 Certain Bedouin 46 Aladdin’s simian

sidekick

48 Looks 49 Defeats by a hair 50 Dumps

52 Auto parts giant 53 “The enemy of ___ is the absence of limitations”: Orson Welles

54 Vehicle used by the police to catch thieves 56 “Delta of Venus” author 57 Mob law?

59 Like many screenplays 61 “The Call of ___” (short story by H. P. Lovecraft) 62 Creamy Italian dish 63 Colorful display in

a weather report 64 Places in the field

DOWN

1 Slumped

2 Cream in a cobalt blue jar

3 “Once again …” 4 Trailblazed

5 Four-letter fruit pronounced in three syllables

6 “Au contraire …”

7 The point of church above all? 8 Ghostwriters lack them 9 Unit of energy

10 Like Rodin’s

“The Thinker” 11 Dated 12 Rendering useless 13 Phoenician goddess of fertility

14 Snack company that’s a subsidiary of Kellogg’s

21 Top part of a face 24 Capital of Newfoundland and Labrador 26 Reduce one’s carbon footprint 28 Copycat’s comment 30 Targets 32 Comprehension 34 Ring letters

37 One referred to

as “the crown”

38 “You all agree with me,

yes?,” in one word 39 Modern screen test 40 Savor the praise 41 Stage holdup?

42 Had it in mind 43 Sacrilege 44 Tic-tac-toe plays 47 Smidgen

50 ___ Baron Cohen, player of Borat 51 Title woman of a Beatles song

54 Lip ___

55 Scrape

58 Published

60 Party person,

for short