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1 Insulting ribute 6 VHS competitor, once 10 “J’accuse” author Emile 14 Immature seed 15 Sumatran swinger 17 Compose buying reminders for Frederic perhaps? 19 “What ___ can I say?” 20 Approximating phrase 21 Overthrows 22 Pimple product 24 Einstein’s birth place 26 It’s best to heel to the left when listening to Franz’s latest work? 34 Good place to sleep 35 Ancient Nile deity 36 Brother to 35A 37 Fixated on neatness, say 39 Hot time for the Riviera 41 Vena ___: major blood vessel 42 Cornell U. locale 45 Sicily’s highest point 48 Bluto or Popeye, e.g. 49 Like many of George Frederick’s more contentious productions? 52 “Understand?” 53 “Sayonara!” 54 Not at all eager 58 Treat from Tijuana 61 Tilt 65 Where you often cook stew for Johann, say? 68 Enamel covered metalwork 69 So old, it’s new again 70 Sunday service song 71 Open court hearing 72 Poverty-stricken

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1 Where “Ben Hur” took place 2 Like a speedskating track 3 N. Pacific diving birds 4 Catches some Z’s 5 Afternoon social 6 Physics Nobel winner from Copenhagen 7 Cupid, in Greece 8 Send, as a telegram 9 Florida roadrunner kin 10 South African native 11 “The Dock of the Bay” singer Redding 12 Worst place in a race 13 Hill-building bugs 16 They often stand on the lawn 18 Expenditures 23 600 rounds per minute weapon 25 JFK’s assassin, initially 26 Dirge’s tempo 27 Where Yellowstone is, partly 28 No-loss situation 29 Bone, in combinations 30 Cam output 31 Martin Luther King could do it 32 Challenger 33 14th cent. Serb VIP 34 Worms, often 38 Soh follower 40 Mediaeval letter that sounded like “th” 43 Truncheons 44 Filled the bill, perhaps? 46 Maxwell House rival 47 Indefinite quantity 50 Involuntary muscle contraction 51 Papal bull, e.g. 54 Highland lake 55 This and no others 56 It’s subject to quantum effects 57 Slender 59 Mentholatum’s Oxy might help it 60 Sonny’s partner, once 62 Before (pref.) 63 School loner, often 64 Helen of ___ 66 “... didn’t say ___” 67 Caterer’s coffee vessel