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ACROSS
1 Blog feed format, for short
4 “Awesome!” 10 Heart-to-heart, maybe 14 Where some R.N.S work 15 Modern music hybrid 16 Diner option
17 *Plays around (4 & 6) 19 Very, very
20 “Lohengrin” soprano
21 Siri runs on it
22 Start appealing to more 23 *Language in which “hello” is “privet” (4 & 3) 25 *Opening a beer bottle with a ring, e.g. (4 & 4) 27 ___-red
28 27-Across, e.g.
30 Sin-ful teaching? 31 In medias ___
33 Jazz singer Anita 34 Presidential threat
35 Ride that you “catch” 38 *Bounce (4 & 4)
41 Barrett of the original Pink Floyd
42 Abbr. above “0”
44 Western wolf
45 Wall Street average, with “the”
47 Summertime cooler 48 What Romeo and Juliet plan to do
50 Jesus, in a metaphor 53 *Omaha Beach locale (4 & 4) 55 *1988 Winter Olympics host (3 & 4)
58 Give a break from the game
59 Load of cash
60 Fort ___, Ontario
61 Store of riches 62 Bachelors no more … or, literally, the answers to the six starred clues 65 Ed of “Up”
66 They might include an R.S.V.P. interface
67 What’s frequently found in poetry?
68 Rules, for short
69 Be out of one’s league, in a way
70 Org. whose workers get hands-on experience?
DOWN
1 Less green, perhaps 2 Disheveled sort
3 Credit ___ (financial giant)
4 Setting for much of the “Odyssey”
5 Amor vincit ___ (love conquers all)
6 Genetic sequences 7 Bauxite and others 8 Crew’s control?
9 D.J.’S library
10 Invention celebrated by NBC’S peacock logo 11 Starts without a key, say 12 Horrible event
13 “Phew!” 16 Singer/songwriter Bacharach
18 Kind of beam
22 Aged, in England
24 Way of old Rome
25 Dark blue?
26 Wife of Esau
29 “Whew, that was something!”
32 Like three of the letters of “aisle”
35 Machine for counting loose change
36 Class for college-bound kids, maybe
37 Aid for getting drunk fast
39 Distant
40 Cost that weighs heavily
43 Takes off
46 Carried on, as war
49 Card game akin to whist
51 Animal in the squirrel family
52 Underwear option 54 Violin virtuoso Leopold 56 “Till we meet again” 57 Gossipy sort
59 ___ large
62 T-shirt size: Abbr. 63 Director Duvernay 64 “I know what you’re thinking” feeling