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1 Cable channel owned by Time Warner 4 Lead-in to toe or top Countdown 10 7 abbr.

“Un ___” (answer to “Parlez-vous français?”) 13 Fashionable 15 Distinctive filmmakers 17 One-horse carriage 18 Alley seen on TV

19 One may be deep 20 Passed 21 Again … and again

23 ___ Ming, 2016 Hall of Fame inductee 24 Thereabouts 27 Unfeeling 29 Line at a barbershop 32 Pickup line? 33 Broadway opening 35 Perhaps not at all 37 Keats ode subject 38 2017 symbol in the Chinese zodiac 40 Accented approval 41 Boots 43 Actress Skye

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45 Eye protector 46 Writing on many a chalkboard 48 Tape recorder button 50 Certain varietal, for short 52 Provide with oxygen 54 Game day disappointment 57 Singer of the anthem “Hatikvah” (“The Hope”) 61 Carry out 62 Big to-do 63 Sticky stuff 64 Some playfulness 65 German direction 66 Short 67 Show filmed at Rockefeller Center, for short 68 Play (with)

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1 “It is ___ that is golden, not silence”: Samuel Butler 2 When tripled, et cetera 3 Article of apparel that often leaves one arm bare 4 Was encouraged 5 Layabout 6 Look at searchingly 7 Olajuwon of the N.B.A. 8 Wreckage 9 Good candidate for adoption 10 Settle by calling the question 11 Lake connected with lakeeffect snow 12 Exhausted 14 Girl Scout cookie offering 16 Barely successful avoidance of calamity 22 Brand for weightwatchers 24 Barbarous 25 Caterpillar stage 26 Godlike, in a way 28 French well 30 Museum piece 31 River through Nottingham, England 34 Ending with micro36 Incentive for buying a new product, maybe 39 Buyers of guidebooks 42 What a long shot has 47 Lunch spot 49 Form-fitting casual wear 51 Matches 53 Wan 54 Auctioned car, perhaps 55 x or y 56 Pac-12 team 58 Make some changes to 59 Old typesetting machine, informally 60 Pop of rock