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Across

1 Tailor’s unit 5 African virus 10 Ancient Central American 14 “Your majesty” 15 Commercial symbols in Lomé? 17 Source of indigo 18 Reptile at the top of the Jurassic food chain 19 Basis of a refreshing Mideast beverage? 21 Court recorder 22 Speaking up? 26 Cries of dismay 27 Downton Abbey headgear 31 Chill in the air 32 Metonym for Middle America 34 Leader of a group of elves 36 Gavotte, minuet and cancan? 39 Where Theseus slew the Minotaur 40 Tone deafness 41 What a cyclops has in common with a cyclone 42 River in Stephen Foster’s Old Folks at Home 44 Chomped down on 47 Country completely surrounded by South Africa 50 Ethan Frome’s wife 52 Far Eastern mimics? 56 Cry from Juliet 59 Sondheim’s It Takes Two, eg 60 Providers of low notes for rumbas? 61 To be, in Toulouse 62 “___ aside …” 63 Begins to wake 64 Blond now, say

Down

1 Arbitrary non-explanatio­n, after “because” 2 No longer an octogenari­an 3 Events in Bonnie and Clyde’s biography 4 Her face launched a thousand ships 5 Greek H’s 6 ___ weevil 7 Leer 8 Lead-in to land for Willy Wonka’s workers 9 Categorize 10 Timid 11 Cabinet dept 12 The “Y” of TTYL 13 Total jerk 16 Actress Turner 20 Emphatical­ly zero 23 What kindness and graceful aging reveal 24 Quibbles 25 4.0, eg 28 Tolkien terror 29 Alternativ­e to cake 30 “___ mañana” 33 Have supper 34 One of the Seven Dwarfs 35 Obama’s signature health measure, for short 36 David ___, comic with a famous Richard Nixon impression 37 When repeated, child’s term for supper 38 Wheel of Fortune buy 39 Cartoon frame 42 Skins’ opponent in a pickup game 43 Prevailed 45 Cry after “Psst!” 46 Sampled 48 Indian ___ 49 Pres Jefferson 51 Broke off 53 Prefix with dexterity 54 Burn superficia­lly 55 Rolling stones lack it 56 First US color TV maker 57 Suffix with hazard 58 CEO’s deg

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