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1 Sample collector 5 Banjo sound 10 Computer menu heading 14 Hookup that may get kinky? 15 Broadcaster 16 Soprano who ends up trapped in a vault 17 Leave out 18 “My name is …,” e.g. 19 Automaker that went bankrupt in 2011 20 What intellectual rivals engage in 23 Oktoberfest quaff 24 Munch Museum locale 25 Election-influencing grp. 28 Like the Tower of Babel, in two ways 31 Arrogant 33 What chess has that bridge doesn’t 36 God of passion 37 “Theodore Roosevelt” or “Robert Louis Stevenson” 43 Lot calculation 44 Classic gas brand 45 Fancy drinking glass 48 Percussion instrument that’s also the name of a popular ringtone 53 End of a dean’s address 54 Sign of inactivity 57 Untrustworthy sort 58 Mid-19th-century Russian ruler described as “autocracy personified” 62 Initial stake 64 Get into some hot water? 65 Work without ___ 66 See 68-Across 67 Edmonton athlete 68 With 66-Across, director’s cry … or hint to 20-, 37- and 58-Across 69 Word after rock, sea or table 70 Tons and tons 71 Pointillism features
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1 Muscle ___, Ala. 2 Marsupial with distinctive cubeshaped droppings 3 Italian alpine cheese 4 “That’s more like it” 5 Comet feature 6 Rioja, for one 7 “Star Wars” droid, familiarly 8 Spongy balls 9 Speaks brusquely 10 It’s right on the map 11 Population beyond the homeland 12 Journalist Wells or Tarbell 13 Coke’s first diet soda 21 What many a U.S. state is named after 22 It comes with a charge 26 Yours, in Arles 27 Dermatological sac 29 Long time 30 “The world’s most valuable resource,” per The Economist 32 ’Neath’s opposite 34 Record speed, for short 35 Send to oblivion 37 “Scarborough Fair” herb 38 J.lo’s onetime beau 39 Counterargument 40 Actress Gadot 41 Record label for D’angelo or Doja Cat 42 Midsection 46 Long time 47 Engines with oomph 49 Like some decorative wooden floors 50 Will, given a chance 51 Most despicable 52 Dogs that were once samurai companions 55 ___ mail 56 Line on a spine 59 Last month in the U.S. government’s fiscal year: Abbr. 60 Mull, with “on” 61 Gendered pronoun 62 Reactions to adorableness 63 Food industry lobby, in brief