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ACROSS

1 White as a

ghost 6 “Aw, shucks!” 10 Scorch 14 Demoted

planet 15 “— never fly!” 16 Soprano’s

piece 17 More balanced 18 Weaver’s

machine 19 Cough syrup

meas. 20 Poultry product 21 Stack 23 Quiver 24 Make nervous 26 Secluded

valleys 27 Newspaper

name 29 Oil-well capper

Red — 31 Hertz

competitor 32 Gripping device 33 Toshiba

competitor 36 Tough it out

(3 wds.) 40 9-digit ID 41 Tijuana farewell 42 Sci-fi award 43 — and drabs 44 Dendrite site 46 Richter Scale

event 48 Opera

composer 49 Spiky hair

styles 50 Non-earthling 52 Wily 55 Two-star

(hyph.) 56 Bubble — 57 Social mores 59 Dele’s undoing 60 Pinnacle 61 Attack on a fort 62 Prefix for

“trillion” 63 Autocrat of

yore

64 Stun gun

DOWN

1 Domed recess 2 Steel-mill

refuse 3 From Budapest 4 Summer in

Quebec 5 Usual 6 Seed scar 7 007’s alma

mater 8 Clump of dirt 9 Dutch carrier 10 One in a pool 11 Kind of renewal 12 Perils 13 Ponytail site 22 California fort 23 Takes a spill 25 Final 26 Hunter’s quarry 27 Says “uh” a lot 28 Nights before 29 Low voices 30 Morse signals 32 Home, slangily 33 Feeds 34 Thus 35 McCartney’s

“— People” 37 Listens closely 38 — McClurg of

sitcoms 39 Clunk 43 Half of N.D. 44 Maiden-name

indicator 45 Papa

Hemingway 46 Give, as a price 47 Big name at

Indy 48 Treacherous

person 49 “Hey, you!” 50 What rainbows

are 51 Sand mandala

builder 53 Mezzanine 54 River in

Belgium 56 Thai temple 58 — Maria