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ACROSS
1 Southeastern Conference football powerhouse, for short 5 Pretentious sort
9 Charlie Brown lamentation
13 Ones making a case for drinking? 14 Cork’s land
15 Mr. ’iggins in “My Fair Lady”
16 It creates an opening at the dentist’s office
19 Leave en masse
20 “Old MacDonald” cry
21 River isle
22 News inits.
23 ___ Family Singers (group that inspired “The Sound of Music”)
24 Works, as dough
27 Gets comfortable
29 Cause of a cold
30 Cheers for toreadors
32 One who talks on the phone a lot? 33 It might involve x, y and z 36 Buffoon
37 When repeated, “Old MacDonald” cry 40 With glee
42 Egyptian menaces
44 Section of a clothing catalog 45 Auction units
48 Central Asian plains
50 Loudly mourn
52 Flynn of film
53 Apt name for a worrier 55 Alphabet run
56 Beverage for a flu sufferer
58 Part of party mix, often 61 Much-covered 1956 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins song … hinting at what happens three times in this puzzle’s solution
63 Raced
64 Adjust, as a piano
65 Day-Glo colors
66 Raced
67 “Fat chance!”
68 ___ Reader
DOWN
1 Taking off, as business
2 Pet from a pet shelter, e.g.
3 Groening who created “The Simpsons” 4 Wan
5 Make more alluring
6 Frank who was a cohort of Al Capone 7 Hockey great whose jersey number rhymed with his name 8 Headlight
9 “Fat chance!” and others 10 Kingdom that’s spread throughout the world
11 Highway patrollers
12 Quick rundown
13 Tuna cut
17 Suffix with right
18 Items at an emergency shelter
25 Get ready to fight, say
26 Key of Pachelbel’s Canon: Abbr. 27 Meeting point
28 Those, in Madrid 30 “Definitely!”
31 Rock’s Kings of ___
34 Weighty work
35 Swiss miss, maybe: Abbr. 37 Singles, doubles and triples 38 Colorful, conical candy on a stick 39 Camera setting
41 “That HURTS!”
43 Like leopards and dominoes 46 Hypothetical particle that travels faster than light
47 Location of “Yellow Submarine” on the album “Yellow Submarine”
49 Court proposition
50 Lump on a trunk
51 BMW alternative
53 Public spat
54 Flat sign
57 Italian province known for sparkling wine
59 Like Cockneys, in British lingo 60 Popular tech news site
62 ___ crawl