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ACROSS
1 Hot gossip
5 Onetime big name in Filipino politics 11 Compete in a harness race
15 When Romeo first sees Juliet 16 King played in film by Sean Connery, Richard Harris and Clive Owen 17 “Take one”
18 Horse races? 20 “Happy Days” actress Moran 21 Base bosses, briefly 22 Unadon fish 23 Walnut, for one 24 Awards since 1956 25 Seinfeld’s stringed instrument?
28 “___ fair!”
29 Pics
31 Literary character
with a powerful face 32 Stinkeroo
34 12th of 12: Abbr. 35 Security lapse 37 Particularly pale
Ph.D. ceremony? 41 Amps (up)
42 Grp. with a firearms
museum
43 ___ jokes
45 Bet
48 Articles
50 Doctor or engineer 52 Pony up for a certain online deal? 55 Rough 57 Multinational electronics company
58 Sch. with a Concord campus
59 Having spotted colors 60 Recommended amount
61 What 18-, 25-, 37- and 52-Across all are (whose circled letters name something used with the base phrases) 64 Catherine, to
Jules et Jim 65 Watched
66 Tug or tub
67 Output of a
spinning jenny 68 Pooh-pooh, with “at” 69 Hostlers’ workplaces
DOWN
1 ___ City, center of the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush 2 First name in a Washington Irving story
3 Provoke a fight,
colloquially
4 Depend (on)
5 Parts of springs
6 Inlet
7 What a detour
alters: Abbr.
8 Verbal tip of the hat 9 Peripheral
10 “Are you kidding me?,”
in texts 11 R&B singer who had a 2015 #1 hit with “Can’t Feel My Face” 12 Mulligan in a dice game 13 Cousin of a meadowlark 14 Bodily connector 19 Loch ___
25 Baby kangaroos 26 Write indelibly 27 Masala ___
(hot, spicy drink) 30 Best Buy buy
33 What Tropical Rain Forest is, in a Crayola box 35 Oscar winner Sophia 36 What queso de bola
is another name for 38 One who knows
what’s coming 39 More than
suspicious of 40 Military post 44 Portable music
player brand
45 Some “me” time 46 City on Puget Sound 47 Naval agreement 48 Droid rival
49 ___-pei (wrinkly dog) 51 Pack in Pac-Man 53 Boots
54 Let out of the corral 56 Out
59 Give up
62 Opposite of a
poetry slam? 63 Pince-___