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ACROSS

1 Prison fence features

6 Nurses at the bar 10 Pageant entrant’s wrap

14 “SNL” Conehead, e.g. 15 Plunderer’s haul 16 Part of a legal bargain

17 School lunch dessert

18 Like an octopus’s defense 19 Assist feloniously 20 Obama advisor David

22 Carry out, as an order

24 Irons of “Reversal of Fortune” 26 CEOs’ communiques 27 Predatory cat 30 Part of a two-piece 31 Spine part that may “slip” 32 Vowel-shaped beam 33 Lacking the skill 35 Missing the mark 38 1979 Kinski title role

39 North Pole surname 40 Roma tomato shape

41 Great Flood refuge 42 Minotaur’s home 43 “Fur is dead” org. 44 AuctionWeb, now 46 39-Across underling 48 Pre-op activity 49 Hands over by treaty 51 Ristorante dessert 53 Like planetary paths

55 Like wav esona shoreline

59 Giv erof “alternative facts” 60 Ukraine’s capital 62 Came to the rescue of

63 Due processdefending org. 64 Awaiting a task 65 Jouster’s mount 66 Pretzel topper 67 Creator of Oscar and Felix 68 Having a 39-Down

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1 Tijuana’s peninsula ,b riefly 2 “Roots” author Haley

3 Rub the wrong way 4 Vacuum-creating lab items 5 Spouse-disturbing sound 6 Calculator’s ancestor 7 Lithium-___ battery 8 Prison, slangily 9 Hades border river 10 Hits the widest key 11 “Vinyl” protector 12 Take care of 13 Finds intolerable 21 Bubble or billiard ball

23 Send via antenna 25 Everglades swimmer 27 Hummus holder 28 Ride provider since 2009 29 Costume party of sorts 31 Ridicule, toa rapper

34 Dash gauge reading 36 There’s no escaping it 37 Envelope part 39 Get all blubbery 40 Left, to right 42 Assign to a role 45 Lebanon’s largest city 47 Not exactly around the corner 49 Fast-food drinks 50 Durance of “Smallville”

51 Dance effortlessly 52 Tribute with bent elbow 54 Sharing an ancestry 56 Patent’s germ 57 Dodge a pothole, perhaps

58 Swirl in a brook 61 Manning of the gridiron

Andrews McMeel