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Across

1 Bills and coins 5 Light punishment on wrists 10 Sumptuously furnished 14 Pear-shaped stringed instrument 15 Hebrew school reading 16 Throw a chip in the pot 17 Bump on the neck 19 Letter-shaped girder 20 Like monkeys and 59-Downs 21 Key with no sharps or flats 23 What angry bees do 24 Issue that’s too dangerous to touch 27 Charged particle 28 Quickly 30 Connected to the internet 31 Constant complainer 33 State-of-the-___ 34 Tennis champ Agassi 35 Winsome … or like the ends of 17-, 24-, 51- and 58-Across, to a punster? 39 Steeple 42 Sloe ___ fizz 43 Completely gratify 47 Having a gun 48 Like the numerals I,V, X and L 50 Highest setting, informally 51 Grand pooh-bah 53 100-meter dash or shot put 55 Itzhak Perlman’s instrument 56 Come out 57 Huckleberry ___ 58 Hand-blown wine bottle that’s also the title of a 1968 Beatles song 61 Favorable margin 62 Increase the energy of 63 Scored 100 on 64 Sleep indicators in the comics 65 Many a middle schooler 66 Young fellows

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1 Like rock music from the 1950s-’70s, now 2 Tax fraud investigator 3 Something a long-distance runner needs 4 Encircle 5 ___ Lee of Marvel Comics 6 Cut (off) 7 Painter/poet

Jean ___ 8 Gourmet’s heightened sense 9 Curly’s replacement in the Three Stooges

10 Sunflowers and Water Lilies 11 In a plane or train 12 Opposite of a bench player 13 His counterpart 18 Multigenerational tale 22 Early caucusgoer 24 Aesop character who lost a race 25 Shape of a stop sign 26 Appreciative poem 29 Easy-to-chew food 32 Nitty-gritty 36 One of two on a bike 37 Capital of Peru 38 Any port ___ storm 39 Used a bench 40 Bring home the bacon, so to speak 41 Encroach (on) 44 “Sweet land of

liberty,” in song 45 Did a stylized

ballroom dance 46 Widens 48 Was almost out

of supplies 49 Finding ___ (2003 Pixar film) 52 When one sees stars 54 Open to

bribery 56 Channel that describes itself as “The worldwide leader in sports” 57 Hat with a

tassel 59 Jungle swinger 60 Begin

litigation