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ACROSS

1 Not be heard from anymore

7 Tom who created Jack Ryan 13 Shakespearean fairy king 14 Something to practice percussion on 15 Humorist Ambrose who once defined “alone” as “in bad company”

16 Fans that jeer the home team, informally

17 Quick attack groups

19 Club booklet

20 Blind followers

24 Tennis star Nadal, to fans

27 Like the leftmost stripe on le drapeau français

29 Deli loaf

30 “There you are!”

31 Like many TV news interviews 35 Emmy nomination number for which Susan Lucci finally won for playing Erica Kane on “All My Children”

37 Little bit

38 Comic actress Rudolph

39 Went 0 to 60, say

43 Producer of jingle-jangle in the pocket 46 “Good for the earth” prefix 47 Horror film director Aster

48 Grasp

49 Coffee or beer, informally

50 Coke and RC

53 Mom on “Modern Family”

56 Aid for a Thanksgiving chef 61 Reverse course, slangily

64 Wing it?

65 Cry at a revival

66 Kind of sale

67 Clicked the double vertical bar on a Youtube video

68 Precipitates unpleasantly, in a way

DOWN

1 Oodles

2 Deadspace?

3 Howl : wolf :: bell : ___

4 Exuberant cry south of the border

5 Title film character who declares “Nobody owes nobody nothing” 6 Show obeisance

7 Gator’s cousin

8 Some garage jobs

9 Eschewers of military service

10 “Ask Me Another” airer 11 Scoundrel

12 Fabric measures: Abbr.

14 Real English county on which Thomas Hardy based the fictional Wessex 16 Where you might roll the starts of 17-, 31-, 43- and 56-Across

18 George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” e.g. 21 Nook, e.g.

22 One of eight on most spiders

23 Part of an animal farm

24 Was in charge of

25 Fish on a sushi menu

26 Gushing letters

28 On drugs, say

31 Bump on a lid

32 Beaut

33 Driving test obstacle

34 GPS suggestion: Abbr.

36 What may have a ring to it? 40 10/24 celebration of global cooperation 41 Makeup of Elsa’s castle in “Frozen” 42 Drag

43 Kind of fly

44 Whiz

45 Pawned

49 Next to

51 Part of some encyclopedias 52 Smooth

54 Certain building beams

55 Get tangled up

57 Had some second thoughts about 58 ___ Modern

59 Division politique

60 Rules and ___

61 One of 21 on a die

62 Actress Thurman

63 Sch. whose newspaper is The Daily Reveille