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Across

1 Puts on TV or radio 5 Ending on several central Asian country names 9 Meanie in “Jack and the Beanstalk” 14 U.S. weather agcy. 15 Zeus’ wife 16 ___ and wiser 17 1990s TV series about a murder in a town in Washington 19 Film director Kurosawa 20 Made smooth, as wood 21 Part of the conjugation of the French “avoir” 23 And others,

for short 24 Bump fists 25 K-K-K-5-5, e.g., in poker 28 Exhibit in an anatomy class 31 Guided 32 Is sick 33 Four-baggers: Abbr. 34 Like favorite stations on a car radio 38 Pie ___ mode 39 Result of failure to comb the hair after sleep, maybe … or a feature of 17-, 25-, 49- or 61-Across? 41 School grp. 42 Young male viewed as a sex object 44 Black ___ (covert doings) 45 ___ Ticonderoga 46 Apr. 15 mail addressee 47 Place to pull over on an interstate 49 English monarch with a “lace” named after her 53 ___-rock (music genre) 54 Land between Can. and Mex. 55 Inits. at the start of a memo 56 “You ready?” 59 Drilling tool 61 Hooded snake 64 Thin pancake 65 Place for the banjo in “Oh! Susanna” 66 Exposition 67 N.B.A. star ___ Irving 68 Freezes, with “over” 69 Worry

Down

1 Picnic pests 2 State that produces the most corn 3 Weather-related stoppage in baseball 4 Beach footwear 5 Tool building 6 Lipton offering 7 Genesis vessel 8 Word before congestion or spray 9 Job that might involve watching the kids? 10 Variety 11 French farewell 12 “Rats!” 13 Use a stencil on 18 Amorous cartoon skunk 22 “No thanks” 25 President after Nixon 26 Like a sheep with all its wool 27 Praiseful poem 28 Onetime Volvo competitor 29 K, in the NATO alphabet 30 “According to conventional wisdom …” 35 Place to drink lined with TVs 36 French “to be” 37 “So long!” 39 Joy Adamson book about Elsa the lioness 40 Fencing sword 43 Coat and ___ 45 Decrease 48 Soft mineral 49 Phony doc 50 Unscrupulous moneylending 51 Rarin’ to go 52 Republican pol Haley from South Carolina 56 Gets 16-Across 57 Buffalo’s lake 58 Sour 60 Prefix with dermis 62 “Monsters, ___” (2001 movie) 63 Word before a maiden name