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1 Kids around 6 Just about every character on “Brooklyn NineNine” 9 Actress Christina 14 Created for a particular purpose, as a committee 15 Big fuss

16 Like the gases neon and argon, but not oxygen and hydrogen 17 Features of most hotel doors

19 City that’s the setting for several van Gogh paintings 20 Denouement 21 Last words of a threat 23 Designer Gucci 24 Gibberish 26 Spins, as a baton 29 Flying insect with a narrow waist

30 Costa ___

31 Not do takeout at a restaurant 34 All the rage

37 What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? 41 Mini-albums, for short

42 Like streakers 43 What you might build a winter fort with

44 Avid

46 Pickled green garnishes 48 Medical impostors, informally 53 “For ___ us a child is born …” 54 Muscular 55 Actress Kravitz of “Big Little Lies” 58 Singer of the 2015 #1 hit “Hello” 60 Bar with country music

62 More decisive 63 Ma that might baa 64 Knight stick? 65 Hermann who wrote “Siddhartha” 66 Fire truck’s color 67 Olympians’ blades

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1 Wisecrack 2 Home for Adam and Eve

3 What dogs do in the spring 4 Apex

5 Group of fish 6 Spy sent by Moses into Canaan 7 Three-time Pro Bowler ___ Beckham Jr. 8 Sheriff’s group 9 Narrow inlet 10 Shabbily dressed 11 Film about food? 12 Belief system 13 “There, there” 18 Spheres 22 Dickens’s “The Mystery of ___ Drood” 24 Steffi of tennis fame

25 Yin’s partner

26 “Can’t argue with that”

27 Puff of smoke 28 Performers in a rink 31 Animal at Yellowstone National Park 32 Beverage for a darts player, perhaps 33 Small amount 35 Frankenstein’s assistant in “Young Frankenstein” 36 Basilica benches 38 Brief race, in brief 39 Things wizards wave 40 Mailing letters?

45 Places to take French classes 46 Bop on the head 47 Popular pattern for socks and sweaters 48 Suppress 49 Excessive, as influence 50 Catchall category 51 Actor Russell or director Cameron 52 Muscular 55 Certain basketball defense

56 “___ bitten, twice shy”

57 Just manages, with “out” 59 Before, in verse 61 Spigot Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS.

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