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1 “___ yourself!” 6 Crayfish feature 10 Figure of the underground economy? 15 Fresh air’s opposite? 16 Well positioned (for) 17 Barrel part 18 Waiting for Lefty playwright 19 Many a toy train track 20 Variable estimated by pollsters 21 Kid’s transport, literally 24 Drove off 25 Night class subj. 26 Cells for new generations 27 Sch. with campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville 28 ___ steak (British term for a sirloin cut) 31 Unrenewed, as a subscription 34 Les États-___ 36 Present location, when visiting the boondocks 39 Graph section, literally 45 Secret application, perhaps 46 “False face must hide what the false heart doth ___”: Macbeth 47 Non-meat choices at a deli counter 50 With 55-Across, preservative for fine wood furniture 53 Laila of the ring 54 Many meses in México 55 See 50-Across 58 Mass figure 60 Military headquarters, literally 65 Hacking target 66 State firmly 67 Biblical book duo 69 Salon procedure 70 Designer Wang 71 Descriptor of many statesmen 72 Brawl 73 Stream disturbance 74 Edges up to

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1 “Dude!” 2 Cold War threat 3 Dealer’s query 4 Big brand of kitchen knives 5 Eve who wrote The Vagina Monologues 6 Swamp critter 7 Early historian of ancient Rome 8 Quickly 9 The Shape of Things to Come author 10 Brief period in nuclear physics: Abbr. 11 Modest response to a compliment 12 D.E.A. agents, informally 13 Change through time 14 Like favorite literary passages 22 Part of the URL for 27-Across 23 Popular afternoon talk show 24 “You lowdown, no-good bum,” e.g. 29 One-track 30 Sets (down) 32 “The supreme ___ of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”: Sun Tzu 33 Corner office, maybe 35 R.B.I., for one 37 Accelerated pace 38 In the pink 40 Actor Stephen 41 Basis of some insurance fraud 42 Amazon menace 43 What “ex-” means 44 Duplicate 47 Obsolescent communications devices 48 Severe malaise 49 Like “n” and “r,” in phonetics 51 Kerfuffle 52 Popular puzzle invented in Japan 56 Words on some blood drive stickers 57 Enjoyed immensely 59 Like Dancing With the Stars dancers 61 Basic concept 62 Nondairy substitute 63 Jerry Lewis’s Nutty Professor was an early example of one 64 Overcast 68 Most AARP members: Abbr.