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ACROSS

1 Word before printer or pointer 6 Securely closed 10 “___ a good one!” 14 Full of energy 15 Achilles or Ajax 16 Got completely correct 17 Dire Straits hit with the lyrics “I want my MTV” 20 Obedience school command 21 Texter’s “r” 22 Halves of diameters 23 Barely sufficient 26 “I think,” in texts 28 Hotel freebie 29 Howard Cosell, notably 33 Concert setting 34 Speak like Cicero 35 Trendy fleece-lined boots 36 Artist’s cap, stereotypi­cally 38 Diana of “The Avengers” 42 Locket shapes 44 Tubular pasta 45 Oscar-winning Roberto Benigni movie of 1997 50 Santa ___ winds 51 Barely-passing 52-Across 52 Transcript figure 53 Collegiate Bulldog 55 Witchy woman 56 Justin Timberlake’s label 59 One can be found at the starts of 17-, 29- and 45-Across 64 Brazilian soccer legend 65 Handouts to the poor 66 Call off, at Canaveral 67 Pyramid scheme, e.g. 68 Small Oreo size 69 Places for picnics

DOWN

1 Meat in many gyros 2 Lip balm additive 3 Monotonous in cadence 4 12/24 or 12/31 5 Marina del ___, Calif. 6 “Cat” or “hat” sound 7 “___ goes nothing!” 8 Starbucks vessel 9 “___ big to fail” 10 “LOL,” verbalized 11 Like lemon juice 12 Home to 177 canals 13 More “out there” 18 Bleacherit­es, e.g. 19 Rainbow ___ (food fish) 24 Defoe’s titular castaway 25 Packed away 26 Concerning, in law 27 A drawbridge may span it 29 “Law & Order: ___” 30 Piece in the game Battleship 31 Like Thor and Loki 32 Sea nymph of Greek myth 36 AFB part 37 River of Dresden 39 Lower in rank 40 Bearded zoo animal 41 Hair-raising stuff 43 Component of a Skype call 44 Bake salesponso­ring org. 45 Off-thebackboa­rd 2-pointers 46 “Be right with you!” 47 “Deck the Halls” syllables 48 Longtime rival of Sampras 49 More than suggest 54 Amazon.com cart unit 55 “Amazing Grace,” e.g. 57 New Year’s projectile, maybe 58 Victims of kitchen traps 60 Hydropower structure 61 Boxing’s “Louisville Lip” 62 Tube top? 63 Not yet filled (Abbr.)

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