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1 Prattle 8 Public square 13 Like records stored for research 15 Popeye’s profession 16 Browser’s start-up point 17 Buses, as tables 18 Freshly 19 Nonsense 21 Second letter after epsilon 23 Tic-tac-toe win 24 Prohibit 25 Worthless talk 31 Fury 32 Financial claim 33 Hanker (for) 37 Neighs : horses :: ___ : sheep 39 Landscaper’s tool 42 Raft for a polar bear 43 = 45 It’s not odd 47 R.N.’s touch 48 Unintelligible jargon 52 “So that’s it!” 55 Itinerary preposition 56 Inexperienced reporter 57 Twaddle 61 Line down the length of a skirt 65 Signing-on info 66 Sudden thought that makes you go “Wow!” 68 Poisons 69 Goes through hurriedly, as during a robbery 70 Jacket alternatives to buttons 71 “Huh?” … or a possible response to 1-, 19-, 25-, 48and 57-Across

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1 ___ Men, group with the 2000 hit “Who Let the Dogs Out” 2 Scientology founder ___ Hubbard 3 Highest point 4 Where spiders get their information? 5 Way cool 6 Actress Saint of “North by Northwest” 7 Alternative to Prego 8 1957 title role for Frank Sinatra 9 In ___ of (replacing) 10 March goes out like this, as the expression goes 11 “___ the Greek” 12 Pyromaniac’s crime 14 Old NASA moon-landing vehicle 15 Great Dane of cartoons, informally 20 Short hairstyle 22 ___ Aviv, Israel 25 Match up (with) 26 Baghdad’s land 27 Boyfriend 28 Bartlet of “The West Wing” or Clampett of “The Beverly Hillbillies” 29 Figure made by lying in the snow and waving one’s arms 30 Sports official, informally 34 Voice below soprano 35 Chocolate/ caramel candy 36 Narrow part of a bottle 38 Droop 40 Christmas ___ (December 24) 41 Mao Zedong was its leader 44 1960s hippie gatherings 46 Big Apple sch. 49 Hawks and doves 50 Rebuke to a dog 51 “Pygmalion” playwright, for short 52 Borders 53 Wears, as clothes 54 Amazon’s virtual assistant 58 Icicles and burning candles both do this 59 ___ Lingus 60 Mineral springs 62 Individually 63 Singer/lyricist Paul 64 Classic computer game set on an island 67 “Gangnam Style” singer