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1 Terra ___ (old name for Newfoundland) 5 Symbol for torque 8 Malfunction

13 1977 Lucas film

15 Jewish organization known for its outreach work

17 Dish featuring corn chips as a main ingredient

18 Regarding this matter

19 Took top honors

20 1871 Eliot novel

22 Stamp collector’s unit 23 Immigrant’s course, for short 24 Syllable in oldies songs

25 Off-axis

28 Dial, e.g.

30 1924 Gershwin composition 35 Self-referential

36 Bush denizen, for short

37 Lead-in to boy

39 2010 Bush autobiography 44 Coupling device

45 Heavily involved

46 Actor Robert of 1970s-’80s TV’s “Quincy, M.E.”

49 Early platform for The Legend of Zelda, for short

50 Colony members

51 1970 Harrison song

54 Wifey, with “the”

57 Looking skyward

58 Easy way to get information on something nowadays

60 Raising of spirits? 61 Exclamation that describes 13-, 20-, 30-, 39- and 51-Across

62 Fire

63 ___ chi ch’uan

64 Gymnastics event, informally

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1 [Warning: explicit content] 2 Other, in Oaxaca 3 Pointless

4 “___ does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection”: Cervantes 5 Access

6 Bum ___

7 Amazon category

8 Secretary of state during the Korean War

9 Place to find solutions in school 10 Plantation of book and film 11 Some paid rides

12 Aid in quitting smoking

14 Word before Day or World on magazine racks

16 Capital of Qatar

21 Scrape or cut

22 Office of the Vatican

25 Place for a 12-Down 26 Sloughed off

27 Like the baby in a 91/2-month pregnancy

29 Highland patterns

31 Like the Atacama Desert among all places on earth

32 “___-hoo!”

33 Magazine founder Eric

34 Suffix with major

38 “Poor venomous fool,” in Shakespeare

40 Playwright Eugène

41 Flying pest, slangily

42 Polish dumpling

43 Nervous

46 Shock jock Don

47 Sort with a high-energy personality 48 “And the ___ goes to …” 50 Celebratory cry

52 T.S.A. tool

53 Letters associated with a rainbow flag

54 Just

55 Baltic capital

56 Modern education acronym

59 High throw