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1 Promotional giveaways 6 Hard-to-sell wheels 10 Muscles in a flex-off 14 Illusory pictures 15 __ rug 16 Mélange 17 Airline category for hombres? 19 Colorado’s __ Verde National Park 20 It’s as low as it gets 21 Handy bag 23 USPS delivery 24 Fast no more 25 Run in prison? 28 Battle (for) 29 Menlo Park, N.J., notable 30 Surgical tools 31 Bellicose god 33 “__ the night before ... ” 36 Gregg user 37 Sculptor, at times? 40 Old Nick 43 Massachusetts Bay city 44 “Little we see in Nature that is __”: Wordsworth 48 Code of silence 50 Freight weight 52 Born, in Bordeaux 53 VIP at royal banquets? 56 Chain letters? 57 Author Kesey 58 Piece of farm equipment 59 Limited message 61 Historic periods 63 Minimal red-removing amount ... and a phonetic hint to four long answers 66 USAF NCO 67 Gray’s subj. 68 Uninterrupted movement 69 Bit of choreography 70 Youngster 71 Govt. security
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1 NYSE listings 2 Like outdoor theaters 3 Dugong relative 4 Encourage 5 Rigid 6 Actor Holbrook 7 Sister of Euterpe 8 Writer with lessons 9 Soft shade 10 Little dog 11 Winner at the polls 12 Water storage tank 13 Blankety-blank type 18 Certain Slavs 22 Clear 24 Girl rescued by Uncle Tom 26 Staircase post 27 Member of MLB’s 2017 champions 32 24-Across greedily 34 Acker of “The Gifted” 35 Nick working at night? 38 Good way to go out 39 __ pine 40 Light bulb holders 41 UMass town whose third letter isn’t pronounced 42 Like many new drivers 45 Experience 46 Charge to occupy 47 Red or Black 49 Financially sound 51 Having collected the least dust 54 Corleone brother 55 Fine-tune 60 Fall locale 62 Indy letters 64 Automne follows it 65 Protest leader?