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1 Swore 6 Kindergarten instruction 10 What may hold a bather or butter 13 Spring bloom 15 Casting director’s assignment 16 Before, to poets 17 2018’s “A Star Is Born,” e.g. 18 It might accompany bacon and toast 20 “Well, ___ you special!” 22 Oscar hopeful 23 Political hopeful 26 Really good person, metaphorically 27 Bank job 28 Nike product 30 “I’m game!” 31 Mid-April addressee, for short 32 Like Cheerios 34 Homophone of “row” 36 You might learn a new language to write one 42 Sixth letter after alpha 43 Boot from power 44 Timeline swath 45 Pop flies? 48 What icicles do 50 Hilton or Marriott 52 Enterprise officer with an earpiece 54 Opinion piece 56 Unfamous sorts 58 What most college mottoes are in 59 Parting words from 18-, 23-, 36- and 54-Across? 61 Halloween creatures 64 Big name in nail polish 65 Fine sediment 66 Cirque du ___ 67 Bit of board game equipment 68 Comic Rogen 69 Peevish

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1 Pre-TiVo device 2 Asset in the game The Settlers of Catan 3 Social theory popularized by Alice Walker 4 Virtual birthday greetings 5 Get into a fistfight 6 Doggie sound 7 Largest Asian island 8 Muse of history 9 Appears to be 10 ___-weenie 11 All-caps word in an email subject line 12 “Violence ___ violence” 14 Drop in the mailbox 19 Conversation 21 Fashion sense 23 Fashion-forward 24 Prefix with dynamic 25 Neck gland 29 Messes up 33 Slightly 35 1980s soca hit with the lyric “Me mind on fire, me soul on fire” 37 Rodent companion 38 Dilating eye part 39 Groups of advisers 40 The “A” in BART 41 Segway cop’s workplace, maybe 45 Solar deity 46 Grammywinning Goldberg 47 Term of respect for an older woman 49 Win, loss or draw 51 Baltimore athlete 53 Rack up 55 Identifiers at the bottom of a blog post 57 Lake named for a Pennsylvania people 60 Last degree, in math 62 Ignited 63 Foxlike