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ACROSS 1 Spot for an AirPod 4 Chowder morsel 8 Moscow currency 13 Slept like __ 15 Color in a Spanish rainbow 16 Religion of Basra 17 Corn Belt tower 18 Latin I verb 19 Riyadh resident 20 *Fictional road material 23 Bookshelf bracket shape 24 Of a battery terminal 25 Necessity for a game of Ultimate 27 History class assignment 30 Elec. or water 31 __ a clue 34 Slangy pounds 36 Financial help 39 End __ 40 Tomato product 41 Preference indicator 42 Religious prefix 43 Grub 44 Brought about 45 Tenerife, por ejemplo 47 Take the helm 49 Surface layers 52 Clogs from France 56 Neurologist’s order, briefly 57 *Cola flavor 60 Pop-up foul-up 62 Stereotypical family spoiler 63 Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer 64 Renaissance painter __ della Francesca 65 Minute quantity 66 Fish __ 67 Family car 68 __-Coburg: former Bavarian duchy 69 Homer’s neighbor
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1 Class requiring little effort 2 Distant and then some 3 Pal of Nancy, in comics 4 Barely advances 5 Big name in vision care 6 Slightly open 7 Recurring theme 8 Go out on a limb 9 Stars and Stripes land: Abbr. 10 *One with noble lineage 11 Crock-Pot server 12 French novelist Zola 14 *Floral papal ornament 21 Brewery kiln 22 Input for a refinery 26 *Chard, by another name 28 Marine shade 29 Portable Mongolian dwellings 31 Simple dwelling 32 Shade of gray 33 Angrily ignoring the first half of the answers to starred clues? 35 Luck, pluck or duck ending 37 Part of D.A.: Abbr. 38 Prefix with con 40 Shade of gray 44 Jacob’s wife before Rachel 46 James with three NBA titles 48 Tunnel out, maybe 49 Many future presidents, as it turned out 50 Like “Stranger Things,” e.g. 51 Metaphorical moments of time 53 Skin, but not bones 54 Kind of evidence 55 Ecclesiastical council 58 Word of amore 59 Fort with billions in bullion 61 “... man __ mouse?”