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Crossword Friday’s solution

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Across

1 ___ Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World (2012 book) 5 Prefix with aware or catastroph­e 8 Itmaybea reflection 13 What the transept transects 14 Barrel holder 15 Whip up 17 Dean Martin classic 19 Twice quinze 20 Appliance store

department 21 Jedi defenses 23 Prepared for

dubbing 24 Mollusks once known as lepus marinus 25 Q-Tip target 26 ___ Amin, Oscarwinni­ng role for Forest Whitaker 29 NL Central team: Abbr 30 It might give you a lift, briefly 31 A lot of dough

can go into them 33 Short-order

orders 34 Border stops … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle 38 Focus of quantum mechanics 40 “I’m With Stupid” shirt feature 41 Burgundy of Anchorman 42 Venomous viper 45 Resting place 46 Series finale? 49 “Pink isn’t just a color, it’s an ___!”: Miley Cyrus 52 Even more calamitous 54 Everything, the good with the bad 56 ___ Gilbert, protagonis­t of The Vampire Diaries 57 Outs 58 “Really?!” 60 Camphor or

fructose 61 Line in the sand? 62 Go it alone 63 California’s Point ___ National Seashore 64 Scratch (out) 65 Actor Bremner of Trainspott­ing and Black Hawk Down

Down

1 Kind of valve 2 Bigwig 3 Dodger 4 Go to sea 5 Swellheade­dness 6 Headlock? 7 “___ the loneliest number” (Three Dog Night lyric) 8 At most 9 Political comic who once had a one-man show on Broadway 10 Low life? 11 Warheads? 12 Implore 16 Characters in

Romola and The Gondoliers 18 Issue in a murder trial 22 Some TVs 27 Main mo in so-called “Oscar season” 28 Tats 31 Volt per ampere 32 Luxe spot 33 Incidental­ly, in a txt msg 34 Saying “Sorry,” say 35 Spherical symbol of authority 36 Cross state 37 Emulated a bobblehead 38 Onetime Caribbean native 39 Summer 42 When the morning shift might start 43 Lathers up 44 Something that may make people go “ick”, for short 46 Before this moment, in poetry 47 Outside clearance event 48 Colorer 50 Delivery room announceme­nt 51 Family Ties

mom 53 “How can ___?” 55 Gander 59 Employ, as “the

Force”

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