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ACROSS

Dance at a

1

Jewish wedding Chemical that

5 burns

Chevrolet muscle 9 car

Home of Waikiki

15 Beach

Capital of Italia

16 Brought (in), as 17 a fish

Vittles

18

“What ___ 19 goes!” (parent’s pronouncem­ent) Task to “run”

20 “Rush Hour” and 21 “21 Jump Street” [Clinton]

Handle with ___

24 Friends’ opposite 25 TV deputy of 26 Mayberry [Bush 43]

Leave out

30

Kind of port on 34 a computer, in brief Zig or zag 35 Anticipate 36

Dines 38

The Buddha is 40 often depicted meditating under it [Obama] Numerical

43 informatio­n Windsurfin­g

44 locale NE of Honolulu “Superfruit” berry

46 Cousin of 48 “Kapow!”

Boxer Spinks

49 who upset Muhammad Ali C-D-E-F-G-AB-C,

50 e.g. [Biden] Linguist Chomsky

53 Small amounts 55 What the starts 56 of 21-, 26-, 40and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues

Prayer beads 63 Shoe bottom 64 More than

65 magnificen­t Smitten

68

___ of Arendelle 69 (Disney queen) Device that

70 makes a TV “smart”

Combs to add

71 volume, as a stylist might

Not the passive

72 sort

Part of a stairway

73

DOWN

Go ___-wild

1

Means of

2 propelling a boat Baked dessert

3 made with tart red stalks (and loads of sugar) University that’s 4 also a color Really dry

5

Cloth used to

6 cover a teapot, to Brits

Apple on a

7 desktop

Respite from

8 work

___ brûlée

9

(French custard) Spray can mist 10 ___ Griffin 11 Enterprise­s

Jai ___

12

Actress Russo 13 Probabilit­y 14 Mosquito 22 repellent ingredient

Author Edgar

23 Allan ___

Like Friday attire

24 in some offices Play music in the

26 subway, perhaps Rhyming title

27 character who plays the tuba in Cuba, in a Rudy Vallee song Curly hairstyle,

28 for short 1099-___ (bankissued

29 tax form) Plenty steamed

31 Stuck, with no 32 way out

Sums

33

Orchard fruit 36 Identify 37

___-mo 39

Howard’s best 41 friend on “The

Big Bang Theory” “Green” prefix

42 Rattle 45

“What ___ be 47 done?”

Founder of

50 Communist China Made smile

51 Basketball 52 players, quaintly “You got that

54 right!” Legal order

56 Sharpen

57

___ Verde

58

(locale of San Juan’s airport) Tourist town in

59 northern New Mexico

By oneself

60

“If all ___ fails …”

61 Letter starter

62

Prez with the

66 pooch Heidi Saucer go-with

67

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PUZZLE BY MECONYA ALFORD

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