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1 Cleared (of) 4 Tote bag material 10 Down-toearth 14 Chemical suffix 15 Even though 16 Wrinkly hybrid fruit 17 Teacher on call 18 John D. Rockefeller’s company 20 Cutlery collection 22 Moo __ gai pan 23 Record 24 Umbrella part 26 Grace word 30 Bilingual “Sesame Street” Muppet 32 Bath sponges 34 Most babbling 37 Bunk 38 Woodland goat-man 41 Arraignment answers 42 Kitchen pests 43 Racing Unsers 44 Preparation period 46 German mathematician Bernhard 48 Softening 52 Calf-length skirts 53 61-Across kingpin __ Fring 56 Subtle shade 57 Glass lip 59 Speed trap equipment 61 #3 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle 65 Check out 66 “Star Trek” race 67 Mariner’s patron 68 __ Lingus 69 Pineapple center 70 “Mercy me!” 71 Genetic material

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1 One who agrees to a dare 2 “Got me” 3 Ledger entries 4 Italian city whose Royal Palace has been used as a set in two “Star Wars” films 5 Hgts. 6 Net or Knick 7 Starbucks order 8 Give a leg up 9 Antlered animal 10 Ballet great Nureyev 11 Psychoanalysis subject 12 Actor Mahershala __ 13 Rapper __ Jon 19 High-tech worker 21 Affect 25 Pasture cry 27 Pull down 28 Opportunity 29 Former Air France jets 31 Colorado snowboarding mecca 33 “Cotton Comes to Harlem” director Davis 35 Urban Dictionary content 36 Iraq War weapon: Abbr. 38 One to grow on 39 Et __: and others 40 Hand-medown 42 Group at Asgard 44 Corneare shaping surgery 45 One facing charges? 47 Desert illusion 49 Ready to roll 50 VietnameseAmerican poker star Scotty 51 Biological subdivisions 54 Implored 55 Black 58 Japanese soup 60 Lady of Spain 61 Eng.channel 62 Pal of Piglet 63 Goof up 64 Extreme