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1 *Top selection 9 Bring pleasure (to) 15 Horror film line that usually gets its speaker in trouble 16 With conviction 17 Final Yahtzee roll, e.g. 18 Defies 19 Omaha-to-Milwaukee dir. 20 Epidermal flaw 21 Its practice doesn’t make it perfect 22 *Preliminary sketch 28 Cowboy leggings 30 Quite small 31 __ culpa 32 Indian noblewoman 33 Utopia 35 Degrees of creativity, briefly 36 *Overly defensive stance 39 Track calculation 40 Very long time 41 Support for a stroller 42 Seminarian’s subj. 43 __ bran 44 Stun gun brand 45 *Newbie 49 Kareem, once 50 Interoffice PC connection 51 Vehicle that really moves? 54 Canal zone 57 “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” trilogy author 60 Video game figure 61 Agonize about 62 Deal with a bounced email 63 *Stud poker element
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1 Roofing unit 2 Vigorous spirit 3 “Got anything __?” 4 Mil. three striper 5 High on the Scoville scale 6 Rodeos, e.g. 7 Equip anew 8 Back nine opener 9 Wealthy 10 “Ecce homo” speaker 11 Hunt stealthily 12 Source of lean red meat 13 PC key 14 Fleur in heraldry 22 Assigns relative value to 23 Mayberry kid 24 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Terrell 25 “It’s just a scratch” 26 Not as messy 27 “Nothing to it!” 28 Less refined 29 Deal with 33 Put on quite an act 34 Cubs’ digs 35 Heck of a party 36 Swedish tennis great 37 Astern 38 Amazon berry 43 Kind of band 44 Mine feature 46 Please mightily 47 Be at loggerheads 48 Cost 51 Brawny rival 52 Big name in PCs 53 Bookish sort 54 What a sequence of single strokes from the start of each starred answer to the next often adds up to 55 Thoroughfare: abbr. 56 “Life Is Good” rapper 58 Farm girl 59 Dungeons & Dragons bird