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1 They often come in shoeboxes 9 Key 13 Widespread rumors, in a portmanteau 15 It’s handled at a bar 16 Post-crisis baseline 17 Like the second movement of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony 18 Family nickname 19 “The ultimate form of free speech,” to Denis Leary 21 ___ tape 22 Streaked 24 Not sit still 26 Died down 29 Tony Stark or Jack Sparrow feature 31 Meet 34 MacGyvering 36 Gets less green, say 38 Mathematical subgroup 39 Puffed up 40 Possible response to “Did you find it?” 43 Some records, informally 44 Remington of 1980s TV 45 Actor Fitch of “This Is Us” 47 As yet 49 Parts of LEDs 53 Berkeley, familiarly 54 In working order 57 ___-Saint-Michel, abbey site in France 58 Flattens, in a way 60 Underlying reason 62 Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of ___ March” 63 Beyoncé’s “Dangerously in Love” or John Lennon’s “Imagine” 64 Gem used in intaglio 65 They are felt every April
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1 Slight faults, to a rater 2 Reluctant to join? 3 Words after god or man 4 ___ Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia 5 Kerfuffle 6 “Thanks a lot!,” in intentionally butchered French 7 ___ belt 8 Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of 9, while living in Switzerland 9 Spanish diminutive 10 Pay for a crime, say 11 “Oh, come on, can’t you take a joke?!” 12 Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905 14 Sign in front of some bars 15 Trickster 20 Stepping away from screens 23 Lunchbox option, informally 25 Silences 27 Concupiscent one 28 Appliance giant founded in England in 1991 30 They’re sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes 31 Strikes out, slangily 32 “See ya!” 33 Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for “study of the end” 35 Mortgage deal, for short 37 Like many defendants in court 41 Word with escape or escalator 42 Camp-y retailer? 46 ___ Peninsula (Horn of Africa) 48 Rabbit ___ 50 “The origin of wisdom,” per René Descartes 51 Follow 52 Asparagus, essentially 53 “See ya!” 55 Eject 56 Actress Kirke of “Mozart in the Jungle” 59 Shoot down 61 One in line at an airport