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Crossword No. 733: Twofers

- by Matt Gaffney

ACROSS

1 Like some testimony and exams 5 Players on a stage 9 Scot’s skirt 13 Kitchen floor piece 14 Laos’ landmass 15 Hyland or Silverman 16 “___ what you’re saying” 17 Far from friendly 18 Former streaming service for Curb Your Enthusiasm 19 President Biden released a video on Super Bowl Sunday decrying this business practice, in which companies subtly decrease product size instead of increasing price 22 Cereal in a blue box 23 At ___ for words 25 2006 best-seller with a chapter called “Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?” 30 In an appropriat­e manner, archaicall­y 33 Vivien in A Streetcar Named Desire 34 Conk out 35 Feeling it after the gym 36 “Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That” singer Parton 37 Skedaddled 38 Word often seen near “neither” 39 Dating from 40 Logical grounds 41 Winter weather that can bring a region to a halt 44 Beer mug 45 “Therefore...” 48 T.D. Jakes or Jerry Falwell, e.g.; like our other three theme entries, this is a “portmantea­u word,” combining letters and meanings of two words to form a third 53 Olivia or Oscar 55 General vicinity 56 Like a cartoonist’s fingers, sometimes 57 “Find ___ and fill it” 58 Thailand, once 59 Leavened flatbread 60 Funny Foxx 61 Reid in The Big Lebowski 62 Word on Irish passports

DOWN

1 Songwritin­g Redding 2 “Isn’t that so?” 3 Midsize Oldsmobile introduced in 1998 4 Throw a football as far as you can 5 Evil-sounding laugh 6 Since 7 Shelf under a window 8 “Et voilà!” 9 Explosive sound 10 Old ___ (Oliver Cromwell’s nickname) 11 Fall behind 12 Despite, when texting 15 Civil War battle won by Gen. Grant 20 With ___ a care in the world 21 Like oranges and limes 24 Lit sometimes set on the moon 26 “I knew it all ___!” 27 Travis with nine receptions in the Super Bowl LVIII 28 Like a well-___ machine 29 Tennis match parts 30 Twitter followers, often 31 Living legends 32 Crushed in competitio­n 36 Lane in Hollywood 37 Cell’s predecesso­r 39 Reacted to a joke, maybe 40 Scapula or sternum, e.g. 42 Made the garden look nicer 43 First European to reach India by sea 46 Peninsula between two continents 47 Heroic Schindler 49 Humongous 50 Opera house number 51 In the vicinity of 52 Daly of Cagney & Lacey 53 Dunkirk subject 54 Suffix with serpent

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