CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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1 Place for a guard 5 American sports org. 9 Walk or wind preceder 14 Suffix for the wealthy 15 Actor who’s played a doctor and senator on TV 16 What captions can capture 17 *Pay back 19 Pay homage, in a way 20 Basil sauce 21 Teed off 23 __ Friday’s 24 Hideout 26 Like some sale quantities 28 *Step back 32 She played Mia in “Pulp Fiction” 33 “I did it!” 34 Prefix with thermal 35 “Puss in Boots” baddie 37 Brown in a Croce title 39 Houston suburb named for initials from the MissouriKansas-Texas Railroad 43 2018 Super Bowl designation 45 Compared with 47 48 Tilling *Snap tool back 53 Buttercup family member 54 Beat at the buzzer 55 Benching units: Abbr. 56 Big name in little trucks 58 Many a UAE resident 62 Chain with a dogand-cat logo 64 One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means 66 Really dug 67 Command to Rover 68 Mindless repetition 69 Gumbo server 70 Govt. branch 71 PR firm’s forte

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1 ’90s-’00s NFL Pro Bowler Warren 2 Take on 3 Accts. funded annually, perhaps 4 Prickly plant 5 Chi.-based flier 6 Downhill excursion 7 Bleach feature 8 Rapeseed oil 9 Baking convenience 10 Winning streak 11 2003 self-titled folk album 12 Superman co-creator Jerry 13 Cones and cubes 18 Doomed, slangily 22 Resort near Cape Cod, with “the” 25 Napoli native 27 “It’s just a scratch” 28 Outkast, for one 29 Texter’s “Shocking!” 30 Damage 31 Magna __ 36 I,OorU 38 “My goodness!” 40 Rarely served fish? 41 Low digit 42 Archery wood 44 Uranium-238, e.g. 46 Beersheba’s locale 48 Female bud 49 Still being tested, as software 50 __ interest 51 “Mind your manners” 52 Irritations 57 Polk’s middle name 59 Support, with “up” 60 Product of white Muscat grapes 61 New driver, usually 63 __-de-sac 65 Continental trade gp.