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ACROSS

1 Marine seal hunter

5 Fab Four surname

10 Chomp on chips, say 14 Deserving a D or F 15 Fresh face at a firm 16 One of two on a car 17 Radio switch letters 18 Not quite right 19 Source of drawn blood

20 Penalty caller, for short 21 Factories with no A/C?

23 Rock climber’s support

25 “I’m impressed!” 26 Practicall­y forever 27 Destinatio­n in Dorothy’s dream

32 Full of zip

34 Answer in a simple quiz 35 Passenger in Kanga’s pouch

36 Like a loiterer

37 Dump water on

38 Manuscript slip-up

39 Barrier to teamwork, perhaps

40 “Five in a row!”

41 Beam-splitting crystal

42 Begin a journey

44 “Interjecti­on” or “conjunctio­n”

45 Tiny tunneler

46 Vulcan, to the ancient Romans

49 True grit in the rink?

54 One in support

55 Washington Irving offering 56 Pressly of “My Name Is Earl” 57 Move like an elephant’s ear 58 Superhero played by Chris Hemsworth 59 Not-so-gentle giants

60 In violation of curfew 61 Short-nosed dogs

62 Menagerie member

63 Withdrawn Canadian bills

DOWN

1 Illusion-based genre

2 Shakespear­ean rival of Paris 3 Scheme hatched at a Starbucks?

4 Mannequin part

5 Shoulder warmers

6 Like track, but not field, events 7 Solo containing a high C, perhaps

8 Advice for the exhausted

9 Applause or boos, e.g.

10 Code talkers’ language (var.) 11 Team in a yoke 12 Use a razor blade on, perhaps

13 Egg farm denizens 21 “Jeopardy!” producer

22 Prospector’s jackpot

24 Wishful feeling 27 React to tickling, perhaps

28 Word in an afterthoug­ht 29 Work schedule at a greasy spoon?

30 Spiller’s cry

31 Go like a jet

32 Mud or mincemeat creations

33 Jagged or ragged item

34 Baptismal receptacle 37 “Somebody’s gotta do it,” it’s said

38 Alternativ­e to

34-Across

40 Filleter’s removal 41 Morsels in fried rice

43 Pullers of hoaxes

44 Tops in cordiality

46 Exhaust pipe emission

47 Speak from the stump

48 Uses steroids, e.g.

49 Start of a 52-Down address

50 Island with a state capital

51 Target of a plumber’s snake 52 Web browser’s find 53 Turkish currency unit 57 Progressiv­e’s spokespers­on

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