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1 Ready to explode 9 Mechanical calculator pioneer 15 Mesmerize 16 Do high-level banking? 17 Exquisitely delicate 18 Disorganized group 19 Set off 20 Got room service, say 22 Stripling 23 Greek goddess of witchcraft and the underworld 26 Smooth talker’s quality 28 Possible reply to someone’s tactful remark 31 Wild grp. 32 “Venus favors the bold” writer 33 Jack of “Dragnet” 36 Travel aimlessly 37 Cat known as a Shirazi in the Mideast 41 Stand’s opposite … or a bad thing to do on the stand 42 Ruckus 44 Humorist Bombeck 45 Just make, with “out” 46 Be really bothered by 51 Dance music subgenre 53 Opposite of kindness 54 Ad ___ 55 Up next 58 ___ perpetuum (let it be everlasting: Lat.) 59 Any of four punk rock bandmates 61 Ruble : Russian :: kuna : ___ 64 Goes around 65 Newspaper photo technique 66 Antarctica, for one 67 Image that’s very pleasing to look at
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1 Hallucinate 2 Showy ballet leap 3 Philosophical issues that may be debated 4 Mine shaft borer 5 Snarky laugh syllable 6 Suffix with brilliant 7 Awarder of billions in sports scholarships, in brief 8 Lucre 9 Outcast 10 Classic Studebaker 11 Twin, to the other twin 12 What 90% of American households had in 2010 — but fewer have today 13 Book of legends 14 English industrial city described by Dickens as “an odious place” 21 Ratings org. 24 Pontiac Trans Am option 25 Water diverter 27 L.A.-to-Fresno direction 29 Cassis cocktail 30 Car that’s an anagram of 14-Down 34 Sight on school grounds 35 A little extra for personal spending 38 E.U. member: Abbr. 39 City in the Midwest’s Story County 40 California tour locale 43 Mythical bird 47 One getting hit after hit? 48 Polar explorer Shackleton 49 Swillbelly 50 One-named folk singer 51 Was off 52 Be off 56 Great desire 57 Request intervention 60 Its first part is called a strophe 62 Estadio exclamation 63 Houston is in it, but Dallas isn’t, briefly