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ACROSS
1 Multi-Emmy-winning actor whose first and last names start with the same two letters
5 Disco ___ of “The Simpsons”
8 Attack from the air
14 911s and Panameras 16 Rule at a self-serve gas station
17 *Followed warnings 18 *Materialistic sort, stereotypically 19 Punk rock offshoot 20 Red dolls made to be tickled 22 Musician’s gift
23 *Marijuana cigarette, informally 25 *Posted inflammatory blog comments, e.g.
29 Job to do 30 Censor’s insertion
32 Sch. whose mascot is Mike the Tiger
33 Gut course
36 Not in time for 38 Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues
40 Early afternoon nap
42 “___ run!”
43 Poodle’s sound 44 “Now the gloves come off!” 46 Farrow and Hamm, for two
50 *Chewbacca, e.g.
52 *Autonomous cleaner
54 One used to old habits?
55 Shy
58 Sch. whose mascot is Sparky the Sun Devil 59 *“L’chaim!”
62 *Like toddlers in high chairs, often
64 Like better
65 Guitarist Joe with
15 Grammy nominations 66 Passover meals
67 Power sources for some clocks 68 Wee workers
DOWN
1 Exam for some smart H.S. students
2 Start for a “land” in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
3 Evidences hunger, in a way
4 Query
5 Word after ice or book
6 Abound (with)
7 “If you prick ___ we not bleed?”: “The Merchant of Venice” 8 Dangerous plant to have around? 9 One-man show about Capote 10 What matching ends of magnets do
11 Shocked
12 Like Snow White, among them all
13 A Cyclops has just one
15 Apron wearer 21 Sault ___ Marie
24 Home furnishings superstores
26 Find a new tenant for
27 Some dazzling designs
28 Twosome
30 Letters on a party invitation
31 Slow and stately, in music
34 When Hamlet says “The play’s the thing” in “Hamlet”
35 Play ice hockey, e.g.
37 “I love you,” in Spain 38 Made dirty 39 Crime boss 40 Alternative to an ax
41 Raw material for steel 45 Collectible group
47 “Count me among your admirers”
48 The “A” of AWOL 49 Some Arabian Peninsula residents
51 Surgical tool
52 Civil disturbances
53 Something you can pick up with your nose 56 Actress Rae
57 Longtime film rating org.
59 “Decorates” on Halloween, for short
60 “___ sher!”
61 Places to which patients are rushed in hosps.
63 Actress Vardalos
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