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1 Cry from a card holder 4 ___ Kelly, Democratic governor of Kansas starting in 2019 9 Yoga pose 14 World view? 15 Putin ally in the Mideast 16 “Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus),” for one
17 -able 19 Nickname for an instructor 20 Singer Turner’s memoir 21 Alley sight 23 Actress/ singer Kravitz 24 Frost formed from fog 25 Big nos. 29 Connecticut collegian 30 Group HQ’d in Ramallah 31 Added some color to 32 Late 1970s 35 Show that Betty White hosted at age 88, informally 36 Op-ed 39 Tear
40 Trick to increase one’s efficiency, in modern lingo 43 “That one’s on me” 47 Sailor 48 Bond or bind 49 Mil. post, say 51 Soul singer Gray
52 Bit of reproach 53 Updo hairstyle 54 NBC drama that won 15 Emmys 55 Tree that’s one of Athena’s symbols 58 Method of communication needed to understand 17-, 25-, 36and 49-Across 61 Target 62 Hybrid fruit 63 ___ in Nancy 64 Figures in academia 65 Unlikely Christmas gifts in tropical areas 66 Is written in old Rome?
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1 Worked from home, say 2 Sea creatures that move by jet propulsion 3 “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” outlook 4 Singer ___ Del Rey 5 Grateful? 6 Tour letters 7 “Invisible Man” author Ellison 8 Berries, for breakfast cereal, e.g. 9 Intriguing discovery in a cave
10 Date 11 Secondlargest private employer in the U.S., after Walmart 12 Cartoonist Hollander 13 Log splitter 18 Prime factor 22 “Up to this point, no” 25 Where to get a polysomnogram
26 ___ Crawley, countess on “Downton Abbey” 27 More off-thewall 28 Nada 30 Talking point 33 It might be shot on a winding seaside road 34 Part of the knee, for short 37 Shere who wrote “Sexual Honesty: By
Women for Women” 38 Eschew dinner company 41 Large, noisy insects 42 Route 1 terminus 43 “The Wind in the Willows” character 44 “That’s not true!” 45 Daughter of Muhammad 46 One-ups 50 Small hill 51 Big ___ 54 Gives permission to 56 Camper, e.g. 57 H.S. exam org. 59 Regret 60 Cover some ground