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1 Dingy 5 Composers Templeton and Wilder 10 Jockey’s whip 14 Inner (pref.) 15 Easily bribed 16 Cuckoo’s announcement 17 What on-line banking leads to, eventually 20 Operated machinery 21 Colour subtleties 22 Write off pro, for short 25 Tune for a twosome 28 Shakes hands with, say 32 Mission of a sort 35 On one’s own 36 Easy to eat foods 37 Silk worm that often appears in crosswords 38 Mythical slayer of Adonis 39 Russell Crowe’s middle name 40 Plays on the tube 42 Actress Graynor of “Fringe” 43 Small river dam 44 Mid-afternoon prayers 46 Flares, e.g. 50 Star-related 51 Inconsequential 52 Caustic cleaner 53 Pomelo hybrid from the West Indies 55 Fierce fury 57 Sound of a slow leak, perhaps, and clue to this puzzle 65 What this isn’t? 66 Way to avoid a big wedding 67 R&B offshoot 68 Poisonous evergreens 69 Lone Star State 70 Do as directed
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1 Twelfth month, oddly (abbr.) 2 Retrovirus make-up 3 Campaign pamphlets, essentially 4 Danish Nobel-winning physicist Niels 5 Madison, for one 6 “___ Enfants Terribles” 7 U.S. navy ranking 8 Wallet contents 9 Stagnant, swampy areas 10 Stone worker’s tool 11 Fishy treat, for some 12 Not at home 13 Stick one’s nose in 18 Tureen accessories 19 Canary’s “nose” 22 Tea from the east 23 The North Star 24 Smitten one 26 Notices 27 Pre-WWI Russian system 29 Never-ending 30 In a brusque manner 31 “Mister” in New Delhi 33 One dir. the wind blows 34 Thinly populated 40 Really riles 41 Teeny dot of plasma 42 U.S. sponsor of “Give Kids a Smile” Day 43 Sturdily built 45 Quebec-Halifax dir. 47 Relies on 48 Pieces of old cloth 49 Marsh plants 54 Bikini, for one 56 Big name in petroleum 57 Where porkers park 58 Ship’s pronoun 59 Log-making aid 60 Chicago White ___ 61 Where to see algae wraps 62 Blubber 63 Sioux City lass 64 Decidedly devious