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ACROSS 1 Peaty places 5 Flower shop purchase

9 Like some track meets

13 “This means trouble!”

14 Sheet folded into a four-page section 15 Eye salaciousl­y 16 Number on a highway marker 17 Sounds like Simba 18 Musical series with Jane Lynch 19 Soybean container 20 Smartphone holder 22 Amphibians in some terraria

24 Soccer standout Hamm 25 Adornments from ostriches 27 Proving successful 32 Elephant gone amok 33 Hilarious sort

34 It’s .5 for a 30-degree angle 35 Fashionabl­e boot brand

36 Snack item with shapes at the last parts of 20- and 50-Across and 3and 29-Down 39 NYC’s Penn, e.g. 40 Hard to fathom 42 Toledo’s waterfront 43 Set of moral principles 45 Testostero­ne counterpar­t 47 Pastor’s domain 48 Eventful period 49 Pay a quick visit 50 Dickens boy born in a workhouse 55 Liquor in a Pink Lady 58 Ready to skinny-dip 59 Airborne delivery device 60 Spoonable pasta 61 App symbol

62 Rain gutter locales 63 Pursues with chocolates and flowers, perhaps 64 Home to Hawkeye and Trapper John 65 Used indigo on, say 66 Calm spot in whitewater, perhaps DOWN 1 Kick off a flight 2 Northwest Territory state 3 Panner’s discovery 4 Pronoun for half the hurricanes 5 Office betting groups 6 Bucktoothe­d “Frozen” character 7 iPhone assistant 8 Sierra Nevada national park 9 Privates’ danglers 10 Trademarke­d citrus fruit 11 Baldwin who voiced “The Boss Baby” 12 Potato ___ soup 14 Banjo neck features 20 Do a custodial job 21 Risk being sent to purgatory 23 Fleet-footed bird of the outback 25 Puritanica­l sort 26 Pricey theater boxes 27 Slipped past the bouncer, maybe 28 Move like a mudslide 29 Party boat rental 30 Filibuster­ing group, maybe 31 Boxing “tale of the tape” stat 33 Where Truman’s buck stopped 37 Thought highly of 38 Cleared a hurdle

41 Keep from happening 44 Prefix with cycle or sect 46 Motherlode yield

47 Photo shoot’s several

49 Felt nostalgic 50 Passing notice, briefly

51 Trim on a teddy 52 Crowbar compositio­n 53 Hospital meal holder 54 Crafted, as a Navajo rug

56 Big name in knit shirts

57 Like a buttinsky

60 Be in the hole

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