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1 Bucket brigade’s target 5 Ventriloquist Bergen 10 Place for yard tools 14 “Haven’t decided yet”
15 Tuna fisher’s net 16 Early stop for presidential hopefuls
17 Relay racer’s path 18 Massachusetts city with Halloween tourism 19 Distance between bridge supports
20 Easter hunt item
21 “Please hold” phone feature
23 Rock station staffers 25 Hailstone composition
26 Fixes illegally
27 Coltrane’s instrument, for short 32 Cooking show fixture
34 Like crayons and candles
35 “That guy!”
36 Home with combs
37 Sized up for a heist
38 Gem in a Beijing Olympics medal
39 Kyle’s “South Park” brother
40 Cities with stevedores
41 Witches’ assembly
42 Sarcastic two-finger gesture
44 Crouton shape
45 WWW surfer’s stop
46 Automaker headquartered in Stuttgart
49 Common safari setting
54 “Toy Story” dinosaur
55 Wally of cookiedom
56 Range orphan
57 Dunham of “Girls”
58 Quality of hot sauce 59 Twist in O. Henry stories
60 Hall-of-Fame manager Weaver
61 Some six-legged queens
62 Auditions, essentially
63 Strike from a list
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1 Applied for candidacy
2 .jpg or .gif file 3 Luxury SUV since
1970
4 Place for a monocle
5 Pieces from pundits
6 Bargain hunters’ finds 7 Tadpole’s breathing organ
8 With a fresh start
9 Stuck around
10 Ivanka, to Tiffany
11 Snake Dance tribe
12 Obi-Wan player McGregor 13 G-rated expletive 21 Canary’s confines 22 Desktop folder, e.g.
24 Jazz jargon
27 Officiate at a bake-off, say
28 Former steadies
29 Stubble remover’s application
30 Helper in the House
31 Marvel Comics mutants 32 LaBeouf of “Transformers” movies
33 ___ torch (luau light)
34 Toad’s skin feature
37 Calmed down
38 Downsizing losses
40 Run smoothly, as an engine 41 Medical researcher’s discovery
43 Long, arduous searches
44 Partridge families
46 Create with a silk-screen
47 “Blue Nude” painter Matisse
48 Praise to the heavens
49 Territory governed by Hamas
50 “You said it, brother!”
51 Nearly every
52 Pained or peeved
53 Bandmates’ clashers, at times 57 Astrological feline