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1 Mail inits. since 1971
5 ___-Carlton (hotel chain) 9 Lettuce or cabbage
14 Small recess 15 Drill (into)
16 Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels
17 Evidence of a day at the beach
19 In a deadpan manner
20 Spleen
21 Middle of a classic boast from Caesar
22 Spanish girlfriend
23 “Phooey!”
25 Chocolate confection with a molten core
28 Partner of “ceases”
31 “Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it”: Richard Feynman
32 Cleric’s title, for short
33 Tiki bar drink
35 Part of a decent-sized plot
36 Effect of secondhand pot smoke
39 Uber-fan
41 Ted ___, author of the bestselling shortstory collection “Exhalation”
42 Make a mistake
43 “Well, lahdi-___”
45 Made an irreverently sarcastic comment
49 Flight of fancy
52 Crooner Mel who was called “The Velvet Fog”
53 Common sight along the Norwegian coast
54 Male admirer
57 Signature Obama achievement, in brief
58 Held on (to)
59 Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses?
61 Where it’s at
62 Afghan’s place
63 Bottom of a boat
64 Army squad leaders: Abbr.
65 Rudely “welcome” the away team
66 “Toy Story” boy
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1 Remove the fastenings from
2 Evening party
3 Tools for fireplaces
4 Winter item on a car’s roof rack
5 Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297)
6 Smidgen
7 Fishing net
8 Mindfulnessbased practice
9 Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film
10 Courtier who oversees Hamlet’s duel with Laertes
11 Member of a powerful ruling elite
12 B-baller in California
13 “___ takers?”
18 Altima maker
22 “___ Maria”
24 Shakespeare’s “___ of Athens”
26 “Given the way things appear …”
27 12/24 or 12/31
29 Small songbird
30 Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally
34 German
“Geez!”
35 Belligerent, in British slang
36 Swiss founder of analytical psychology
37 Largest Chinese ethnic group
38 Like “three men” of nursery rhyme
39 Patch things up, say?
40 Unimportant things
43 Funereal compositions
44 Chip in
46 N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym 47 Presided over a roast, say
48 Lethal
50 Dunkable edible
51 Degrade
55 Nobelist Wiesel
56 Miles away
58 Big name in pharmacies
59 One of Islam’s Five Pillars
60 Inits. before a nickname