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1 Valuable trump card 4 ‘68 US Open champ Arthur 8 Senseless talk 14 Balance sheet entries 16 Hooded, Inuit pull-on 17 Xenon, for one 18 Tuesday before Ash Wednesday 19 Sinhalese honorific 20 Mrs. Lester, of “Tobacco Road” 21 Provided a synopsis 22 Get dressed (up) 23 Ribald Roman party 24 Big bird that runs at 50kph 25 Bomber pilot of “Catch-22” 26 Smoothie ingredient, perhaps 27 Eat at two; have ___ lunch 31 Put into action 32 Good thing to slice 34 More foolish 35 1929’s “___ Funny That Way” 37 Regions 39 It’s been making lava for centuries 40 Small brown finch 42 Not sharp 44 Picks out of a line-up 45 Bath salt variety 46 When most workers are at work 47 60’s peace sign 48 Not in the building 50 Okanagan export 51 Screw things up 52 Weevil, e.g. 55 Strawberry coloured 56 Tropical bird that shares its nest 57 Mrs. Rocky Balboa 58 Liven up 61 Restores the defaults 62 Concealed from view 63 Main course 64 Try out 65 “All Seats Sold” theatre sign
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1 Tycoon Onassis, to his friends 2 Feature of many dictatorships 3 Boreal forest flora 4 Hobby farm critter 5 Make easier to swallow 6 Helmets and such 7 “How I Spent My Summer,” e.g. 8 No longer in vogue 9 More than merely cruel 10 What a lot of infants drink 11 Word on a gift tag 12 Do one’s ablutions 13 Scraped by (with “out”) 15 Luxurious Inidan silk 22 Muss up one’s hair 23 Flaxseed product 28 Medications obtained by milking snakes 29 Kitchen mallet, often 30 Blackboard cleaner 33 Provided lunch 34 Charlottetown natives 36 More haughty 38 Meeting with the Pope, say 41 Try to be like 43 Strong sodium solution 49 Up tight 50 Take away forcibly 52 Naked 53 Hagman’s TV co-star 54 Before the present time, quaintly 56 What to do as the years pass by 59 Soak some hemp 60 Capital of old Japan