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1 Talon 5 Sign of a wound’s healing 9 Wallace of Fox News 14 Smog, e.g. 15 “This is terrible!” 16 White gemstone 17 White gemstone 18 Australian wind instrument 20 “Hmm, good enough” 22 Way over there, quaintly 23 Minor fender damage 24 Fish eggs 25 Caller of balls and strikes 27 Kind of pudding 29 Hole-digging tool 31 U.S. president who was once president of the Harvard Law Review 33 Fleming who created 007 34 Third-largest city in Japan 36 Rubber gaskets 38 System of underwater mountains 41 Dine at a restaurant 42 Artist’s stand 43 Two auto-racing Unsers 44 Exchange 46 City between Phoenix and Mesa 50 Horror film villain with a knife 52 Reggae relative 54 Atmosphere 55 Fraternity party costume made from a bedsheet 56 Forlorn 58 Belfast’s province 60 Wedding attendant 63 Book after 2 Chronicles 64 Like the smell of burning rubber 65 ___-European languages 66 Threadbare 67 Sch. in New Haven, Conn. 68 Insolent talk 69 Place to store garden tools
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1 Church groups in robes 2 Take-it-with-you computer 3 Pink-flowering shrub 4 In good health 5 Wicked city in Genesis 6 Ho ___ Minh City 7 Tennis’s Murray or Roddick 8 Capital of Colombia 9 Lifesaving subj. taught by the Red Cross 10 Longtime “Project Runway” host Klum 11 Communicating by wireless 12 Severe place of confinement 13 “Think” for IBM and “Think outside the bun” for Taco Bell 19 Fills with love 21 Exactly below, on a map 26 Jab 28 ___ lobe (part of the brain) 30 “Dumb” bird 32 Sounded like sheep 35 Tyne Daly or Keira Knightley 37 Not busy 38 Spanish resort island, to locals 39 Delivery room announcement 40 Scottish refusals 41 Locale of Oakland and Alameda 45 One of the Three Musketeers 47 Unleavened bread for Passover 48 Justin Trudeau’s father 49 Quick trip to a store and back, e.g. 51 “Sexy ___” (Beatles song) 53 Words of praise 57 Comic Carvey once of “SNL” 59 Stitches 61 End of a school’s email address 62 Two forms of them are found in 18-, 38- and 60-Across
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