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1 Someone who cares too much? 17 Serious competition

18 It sends waves through waves 19 College Board offering, for short 20 Guarded

21 Nincompoop

22 Age

24 Foggy condition

27 They go to the dogs 29 Unrelenting

34 Stops streaming

35 Part of ISIL

36 Small slice of pizza?

37 Party hearty

38 X

39 Help in a gym

40 Poetic preposition

41 Draconian

42 Ex-Expo Rusty

43 Deliveries in the early 1940s 45 Hardly generous

46 Santa ___

47 They have strong teeth 48 Salinger title girl

51 Prey for an eagle or bear 54 Monster of TV

57 Sophomoric rejoinder

61 1958 Bobby Freeman hit covered by the Beach Boys and the Ramones

62 Be beneficial to

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1 Part of a locker

2 Love symbol that names another love symbol if you move the first letter to the end

3 Moon buggy

4 Kick-start

5 Banned pollutant, for short 6 A large quantity

7 Show vanity, in a way

8 Have a large quantity of liquor 9 ___’acte

10 Drink after a race, say 11 Pressure meas.

12 French toast maker, maybe 13 14-line poem with only two rhymes 14 Prefix with sperm

15 “No ___”

16 Veteran’s opposite

23 Certain letter addendum, for short 25 Result of an oil surplus 26 25-Down unit

27 Thread holder

28 Santa ___

29 Word from the French for “mixed” 30 Civil rights icon Medgar

31 Quick way through a toll plaza 32 Summer Olympics host before Barcelona

33 Save for later

35 Giant

38 Eugene in labor history

39 Gives a blank look

41 ___ Jorge (one of the Azores)

42 “He who holds the ___ must be master of the empire”: Cicero

44 Native of NW France

45 Kind of acting

47 Spirit

48 Some sked predictions 49 Completely ruined

50 Itzamna worshipers 52 Requested service 53 Palindromic man’s name

55 It’s flaky

56 Had too much, in brief 58 Dijon-to-Lyon direction

59 Teens fight, for short

60 Story assigners, in brief