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1 Sarcasm indicator 10 Rating org. 14 It may give you

a final answer 16 Baseball’s Eddie who was nicknamed “The Walking Man” 17 Real head

turners 18 Vino place 19 Antagonistic org. in “The Simpsons

Movie” 20 Speaker of the film line “This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it” 21 Libertine’s

opposite 23 Spanish

cardinal 25 Fall sensation 27 Activity studied

in onomastics 28 Currently

playing 30 Brandy or

whiskey 32 What a monkey may see or hear 34 “Groundhog

Day” director 35 Groups of

three 37 Nuclear ___ 40 Discharge 42 Season finale? 44 Electrical room

device 48 Probed 49 Not likely to

judge 50 First of 50:

Abbr. 52 Jennifer of the BBC production “Pride and Prejudice” 53 Capitol Hill

sight 55 Young hunk,

say 57 Cyrillic letter between kha and che 58 Desert mount 59 Union in 1999

news 62 Kind of tower 63 Modify an

order? 64 Forum being 65 Is clearly #1

DOWN

1 Dean of the Truman cabinet 2 “That would be bad!” 3 Legal tender? 4 Chewable Mideast stimulant 5 Hexagon on a map 6 13th-century empire founder 7 Muse of

comedy 8 Smoked delicacy 9 Slip through the cracks 10 Elvis Costello’s

debut album 11 Tacky yellow

thing 12 Kazakhstan’s

capital 13 Not much,

colorwise 15 Great swells 22 Showing severe erosion, maybe 24 Coin featuring

a hammer and

sickle 26 What may

follow “NO” 29 Lead pilot’s

support 31 A.F.L.-C.I.O.

affiliate 33 First AfricanAmerican golfer to play in the Masters 36 Retired boomer 38 Like some old gaming consoles 39 Not reduced or

enlarged 41 “Better Off ___” (former ABC sitcom) 43 Politico Michael and others 44 Decorated pilot 45 Ovid opus 46 Wrecks 47 1990s party

name 51 Sound of

silence? 54 Reduced

drastically 56 Cyclops, e.g.,

in comic books 60 Unhelpful noughts-and-crosses line 61 ___ mission