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1 Jordan’s capital 6 Amounts to 11 Cleveland hoopster 14 Tour leader 15 Popcorn brand whose logo resembles a movie marquee 16 Corrida cheer 17 *Many a museum piece 19 “MSNBC Live” co-anchor Velshi 20 Big Dipper’s constellation 21 Birth-related 23 Couple of gags? 24 Tied-on protectors 25 Without 28 Not even close 30 Vise features 31 British nobles 32 Roger Federer’s org. 35 French buddy 36 *Choice spot at the opera 38 Pi follower 39 Stood for office 40 Powerful Japanese dog 41 Black bird or black cat, to some 42 Go round and round 44 Messed (up) 46 Obtain 48 Is not misused? 49 Very serious, as a water shortage 50 Blunder 55 Humanities degs. 56 Words to a server ... or a hint to the first words of the answers to starred clues 58 “The Book of __”: 2010 Denzel Washington film 59 Exorbitant interest 60 Ceremonial place 61 Fond du __, Wisconsin 62 Closed 63 Braid

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1 Twittering 2 “Studies in the Sierra” writer John 3 Fitbit unit 4 Much of the Sunday paper 5 Spruce (up) 6 Walking sticks 7 Penta- plus three 8 Cup-a-Soup direction 9 Pewter component 10 Footpath aid 11 *Family crest 12 Poe’s middle name 13 Concealing accessories 18 “Probably not” 22 “Wanna go out?” response 24 Protagonist of Auel’s “Earth’s Children” novels 25 Somewhat open 26 Auburn rival, familiarly 27 *Ellington genre 28 Squander 29 Surface product 31 Bright word in a dark theater 33 You, back in the day 34 Koi habitat 36 Kansas City cuisine 37 Not bad 41 Fly off the shelf faster than 43 To date 44 Struggle with sisters? 45 400 meters, on many tracks 46 It has one hump or two 47 Florida’s __ National Forest 48 Binder for some paints 50 2017 FX miniseries subtitled “Bette and Joan” 51 Spacious lot 52 Part of TTFN 53 Actor Morales 54 Cheeky 57 QVC sister station