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ACROSS

1 Whitewater craft 5 Chews the fat 9 “Nothing but net” sound 14 She sang with Duke

and Dizzy 15 Instrument called “an ill wind that nobody blows good” 16 Ionian Sea vacation

isle 17 Out there 18 Lacks pizazz 20 Former Haitian leader

Duvalier 22 Clothing, slangily 23 Radio host who often

wears cowboy hats 25 Got hitched 26 Overly partisan 31 “Uncle” on a food

package 34 ___ Mountains 35 Sen. Biden

represented it: Abbr. 36 Jam session feature 37 Doesn’t fight back 40 Failed to show up for,

informally 42 A lot of a flock 43 “Major ___” of 1990s

TV 45 Shire of “Rocky” 46 Roseanne’s husband

on “Roseanne” 47 Animal on display 50 Filming site 51 Roe source 52 Casual eateries 56 Put up 61 Inuit, maybe 63 Leander’s love 64 Téa of “Spanglish” 65 Prefix with plane, to a

Brit 66 Calif. neighbor 67 Three-star rank: Abbr. 68 Amount between

some and all 69 High roller’s pair

DOWN

1 Realize, as profit 2 Sporty auto, for short 3 Try to get airborne, maybe 4 Setting in a Mitchell novel 5 “Get lost!” 6 Ancestor of a calculator 7 Fenway nine, on scoreboards 8 E-mail folder heading 9 Ruined a shutout 10 Tried to win 11 Rombauer of cookery 12 “Bullitt” law

enforcement org. 13 Confused responses 19 Words said with a

shrug 21 Light tennis shots that

fall just over the net 24 Caesar of old TV 26 Brought along on a

hike, say 27 2000s Vienna State

Opera conductor 28 Like some heavy

buckets 29 Assaying samples 30 Cotillion V.I.P. 31 Yalie’s cheer word 32 Like Keebler workers 33 Low-cal yogurt

descriptor 36 One-for-one

transaction 38 “Same with me!” 39 Confucian principle 41 Chopin piece 44 Built-in feature of the

Apple II 47 Focus (on) 48 “Bottoms up!” 49 Stick’s partner, in an

idiom 50 Soup ingredient in an

old folk story 52 Legislature’s

consideration 53 The Beach Boys’ “___

Around” 54 Walk wearily 55 Did laps, say 57 Landlocked African

land 58 Hatcher who played

Lois Lane 59 Spy novelist Ambler 60 Go out for a short

time? 62 Prefix with natal