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1 Snake charmer’s snake 6 Pushy 11 Coquettishly playful 14 First zodiac sign 15 Highway 16 Network of medical providers, in brief 17 Country bumpkin’s counterpart 19 Oil-drilling apparatus 20 Weed-whacking tool 21 Assists 22 Prius maker 24 Following 26 From Shanghai or Mumbai, say 27 Woman having literary interests 31 Hosts for roasts 34 Carried the day 35 Corporate head, for short 36 Group choosing a 35-Across 37 Smucker’s product 38 Grew ashen 40 Hit on the head 41 Ad exhortation 42 Solitary sorts 43 Pompous person 47 Usually spicy Indian dish 48 Disheveled 52 Lou on six winning World Series teams 54 Soup can painter Warhol 55 Motorists’ org. 56 “How ___ doing?” 57 Know-it-all 60 Smith & Wesson product 61 Swimming phenom Ledecky 62 Fjord, e.g. 63 He hee-haws 64 Slammin’ Sammy of golf 65 King on “CBS This Morning”
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1 Hidden stash 2 Hunter in the night sky 3 What fishermen want from fish but not from mosquitoes 4 Heroine of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” 5 Attacked vigorously 6 What you might come across at a river? 7 Fierce fliers of myth 8 Diving bird of the Arctic 9 High, widebrimmed hat 10 Brave 11 Historical account 12 Skip 13 Hindu-inspired exercise 18 “Peanuts” boy with a security blanket 23 Shaggy Tibetan beast 25 Cab company competitor 26 Elemental bit 28 Persuades 29 ___-do-well 30 Mount Olympus residents 31 Subsides 32 No longer relevant 33 Monkeys named for monks 37 Children’s writer Blume 38 Looney Tunes character who says “Th-th-ththat’s all, folks!” 39 Card game stake 41 Ingmar who directed “The Seventh Seal” 42 Lucky ___ (nickname for the Spirit of St. Louis pilot) 44 Taboo for PETA 45 Pats down, as a suspect 46 Pursued, as prey 49 Virile 50 Dev who starred in 2016’s “Lion” 51 One of the five senses 52 Infatuated 53 Birds on Australian coins 54 Operatic solo 58 Cleaned one’s plate 59 Santa ___ winds