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- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Fred Piscop

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ACROSS

1 Exchanges verbal jabs 6 “Battle Cry” novelist Leon 10 Hosiery ruiner 14 Superman’s birth name 15 Upper-body muscle, for short 16 Stage after larva 17 Automatic out, in baseball 19 Elemental unit 20 Subway straphange­r 21 What a false alarm may cause 22 Feathered projectile 24 Sachet emanations 25 Oater brawl scene 29 Moe, Curly or Shemp 31 Knicks great Patrick 32 Accord or Camry 33 Dugout rack item 36 Poor, as excuses go 37 Hard thing to kick, perhaps 38 Gun barrel feature 39 Memo heading, perhaps 40 Smooth musical transition 41 Ship’s wastewater 42 Prom queens’ toppers 44 19-Across component 45 Revises, as a will 47 Add to the staff 49 Act the freeloader 50 Movie trailers, e.g. 55 Pit crew item 56 Wall Street announceme­nt 59 Cross to bear 60 Greasy-spoon fare 61 Puccini title character 62 A squatter doesn’t pay it 63 Handicraft­s site 64 Bum ___ (bad tip)

DOWN

1 Biathlon gear 2 Huff and puff 3 Sporty auto, for short 4 Harness part 5 Iditarod team member 6 Dairy cow part 7 Ump’s counterpar­t 8 Green around the gills 9 Place for a swill trough 10 Orthodonti­c device 11 Two-piece metal fastener 12 To the left, at sea 13 Wii purchases 18 Low in fat, as pastrami 21 All-in-one printer function 23 Undevelope­d area, to an Aussie 24 Police jacket letters 25 Portraitis­t’s subject, perhaps 26 Like the visiting team 27 Series with a predetermi­ned end date 28 Number on a foam finger 30 Oft-kicked comics canine 32 “Roots,” e.g. 34 Best Picture of 2012 35 Typical “Belieber” 37 Towel word 38 Tell-all book, for short 40 Marquis de ___ 41 KFC servings 43 Wolf down 44 First school for some, briefly 45 John Wilkes Booth, e.g. 46 Only one-syllable state name 48 Like a mosquito bite 51 Lady Macbeth’s “damned” thing 52 Ultimatum ender 53 “Dirty” Cajun fare 54 Sticker on a perfect paper, perhaps 56 ___-crab soup 57 Body ink, briefly 58 WWII spy org.

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