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Crossword

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Across

1 Youngster in a stream

9 Put the kibosh

on

15 “You can’t be

serious!” 16 Response to a

riot

17 Modern moneysavin­g transporta­tion choice 18 Restraint technique in mixed martial arts 19 Setting for several “Survivor” seasons 20 Furnish 22 “What’s the

___?”

23 Like slapstick

comics, often 26 People might

profit from it 28 Ehud Barak abandoned it in 2011

32 Paint crudely 34 Partner of

27-Down 35 Smidgens 36 Series opener 37 Pokémon

slogan

40 Noted corporate raider of the 1980s

41 With 10-Down, The Devil and Death

42 Date

43 “I’m off!”

44 Yore 46 Something found on a hound 48 Depreciati­on

factor

49 Shags, e.g. 50 “Hope ___ to mortals / And most believe her”: Housman 52 Roughly 18 inches

56 Possibilit­y 58 “Sure thing, bro!” 61 Flower child fashion 62 Postgrad goal,

maybe 63 Cremona treasures, familiarly 64 Match book?

Down

1 Overture, e.g. 2 Big blow for a

musician?

3 The antagonist­s 4 Cheap cigar,

slangily

5 One with a wrench in his plans?

6 Kung ___ chicken

7 Tour grp. 8 Eponym of a federal college grant 9 Beer-and-lemonade beverage 10 See 41-Across 11 Eponym of an

electrical law 12 Absence of preconceiv­ed notions 13 Dodgers second baseman who won four consecutiv­e Silver Slugger Awards beginning in 2006 14 Storied loser in an upset 21 Is forced to backpedal, say 24 “The Last

Emperor,” e.g. 25 Boolean or string, in programmin­g 27 Partner of

34-Across

28 On the up and

up

29 The hardest part when making guacamole? 30 Bug catcher,

often

31 ID anew, as on

Facebook 33 Gymnastics superstar at the 2016 Olympics 36 One with whom your relationsh­ip is working out, briefly? 38 Icebreaker? 39 Perfect 44 Presidenti­al

middle name 45 Peon

47 Price of R&B 49 Pac-Man features

51 Sylvia of jazz 53 Reason for saying “Pardon me” 54 Unpatentab­le

thing

55 Put out, with

“off”

57 Home of Northwest Nazarene Univ.

59 Key used to

make an exit 60 Trouble

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