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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 lar va 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 Dair y 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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© Andrews McMeel 10/4

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