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1 Table cloth material 5 Some spoonfuls 10 Mull (over) 14 “My turn” 15 Sp ace ___ 16 Naturalization requirement 17 Mathematician John portrayed in “A Beautiful Mind” 18 Part of a classical education 19 O ne-named singer born Christa Päffgen 20 Ziegfeld Follies costumer 21 F owl territory? 23 Societal instability resulting from a breakdown in values 25 He gave Odysseus a bag of winds 28 Like traditional media, to some 29 Original airer of “The Office” 32 Sound from a haunted house 33 C VS rival 36 Cannes condiment 37 Summer amusements … or a literal description of three answers in this puzzle 40 Employer whose workers don’t discuss their jobs much, in short 42 Top choice in December? 43 Nighttime irregularity 46 ___ Clare, ward in Dickens’s “Bleak House” 47 Take the wrong way? 51 F ree-for-all 53 Small fry 54 Home of the Big House in college football 58 Piddling 59 Atmosphere 61 Spacious 62 App purchaser 63 Noodle concoction? 64 Home for American alligators 65 Stocking material 66 Abbr .found on some corporate logos 67 Gesture made with the thumb and nose 68 Decryption needs
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1 Hereditary 2 Sit e where cuneiform tablets were discovered 3 Made-t o-order 4 Transient things 5 S weet, in Sorrento 6 Hawaiian seafood 7 Radio listener grp. 8 ___ Blair, George Orwell’s real name 9 Decaf choice 10 Sarah ___, protagonist of “The Terminator” 11 It usually reveals more than you want 12 Sentence shortener 13 Question suggesting “Never heard of ’em” 22 Brain test, briefly 24 “Oh, really?” 26 OPE C member: Abbr. 27 High-profile gig for a musician, for short 29 He actually said “I really didn’t say everything I said” 30 Headquartered 31 Las hes 34 “TR US___” (2016 political slogan) 35 Check ed off the bucket list, say 37 “Care to make it interesting?” 38“Entourage” actress Mazar 39 Sp ace XC.E.O. 40 Stink er 41 Angel’ s payoff, for short 44 Santa’ s reindeer, counting Rudolph 45 R and popular with the Tea Party 48 Newborn attire 49 In a bad way 50 Moves behind? 52 Put-downs 53 Iconic green poison symbol 55 Equine color 56 Laddie 57 Melville’ s second novel 59 Battle 60 Subject s of some voting laws