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ACROSS

1 Letters meaning

“Make it snappy!” 5 Mouth-puckering 9 Sidewalk’s edge

13 Nut from Australia 15 Actress Raymonde of “Lost”

16 Wall fixture for a landline

17 Gives off, as light 18 Beetle Bailey’s superior 19 Abounds (with) 21 Stage prompt 22 Cremation vessel 23 Bathroom bar offering so-called “round-theclock” protection 25 Quilting or crossword solving, e.g.

30 Spanish rice dish 31 One-percenters

and such

34 Reddish

35 Start, as a meeting 38 Q-tip, for one

40 The “A” and “S”

of 1-Across

41 Biblical land

44 Doing sentry duty 48 Candy suckers in the form of jewelry 51 Historical period

52 “I Like ___” (1950s campaign button) 53 Science fiction writer Asimov 55 Yearns (for) 57 Make an offer for at auction 59 Trendy, much-used lingo … or a hint to the starts of 16-, 23-, 35and 48-Across 61 Barely making, with “out”

62 Postal letters,

deprecatingly 63 Location 64 Temporary rain cover

65 Chip or coin thrown in the pot

DOWN

1 Excites

2 African desert 3 Squirrel’s

stash

4 Twinge of guilt

5 ___ Mahal

6 Amo, amas, ___ … 7 Like not-quite-mashed

potatoes

8 George of the original

“Star Trek”

9 Filming device, informally 10 Monochromatic 11 Sacred ceremonies 12 Salary before bonuses

14 Actor Billy ___ Williams 15 Model 3 electric car maker

20 An “X” might “mark the spot” on one 24 Venus’s tennis doubles partner 26 Earl Grey pouch on a string

27 Needing medicine, say 28 Thousand thou

29 “At Last” singer

___ James

32 Goddess of the dawn 33 Meh

35 Stopped all

that yapping 36 Presidential son Reagan

37 ___ Jones industrial average 38 Old-fashioned writers 39 Hawaiian surfing

mecca

42 Mimicking 43 Rejections

45 Capital of Iran 46 College degree unit 47 Big inconvenience 49 Blue Ribbon brewery 50 Place to sweat it out 54 Ruler until 1917 55 Hole-making tool 56 Result of a serious head injury

58 ___ Direction

(boy band)

60 Nada