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ACROSS

1 Accomplished 4 Greeted at the door 9 Davis of “A League of Their Own” 14 Academic e-mail

address ender 15 Speak grandly 16 Director Welles 17 Score between birdie

and bogey 18 Neat in appearance 20 “Nothing left to say” 22 1950s Ford failures 23 Sharpen 24 Glum 25 “In case it’s of interest

…,” on a memo 26 Tierra ___ Fuego 28 Pan in Chinese

cookery 30 “Waiting for ___” 34 Air conditioner meas. 36 “The Tears ___ Clown” 38 Modern film genre with

dark themes 40 Crew team implement 41 Clickable address, for

short 42 Monterrey gold 43 Suffix with glob 44 Three-dimensional 46 One a woman can’t

trust 47 “I’m gone” 48 Enthusiastic kids’ plea 49 Seek, as permission 51 Oscar winner Brynner 53 Stately 33-Down 55 Letters before an alias 57 Make over 60 Small stock purchase 63 Like a weedy garden 65 Just going through the

motions 67 Spanish “huzzah!” 68 Prized violin 69 Signal again, as an

actor 70 First of the five W’s 71 Gracefully limber 72 Expressed one’s

disapproval 73 Writer Anaïs

DOWN

1 Swimming pool statistic 2 Boise’s state 3 *Band with the 1983 hit “Hungry Like the Wolf” 4 Piglets’ mothers 5 Expanses 6 *Washington city near the Oregon border 7 “That’s adequate” 8 Below zero: Abbr. 9 *Affectedly virtuous 10 Soil problem 11 Salinger title girl 12 Christmas song 13 No ifs, ___ or buts 19 Wrestling official,

briefly 21 Buttonless shirt,

informally 27 *Hit song for the Kingsmen with famously unintelligible lyrics 29 *Joke starter 31 Blackjack player’s option … or a description of the answers to the starred clues? 32 Slick 33 See 53-Across 34 Pear variety 35 Finger food at a fiesta 37 Monk’s title 39 The Roaring Twenties,

e.g. 45 Last of a dozen 50 Fries lightly 52 Spigoted vessel 54 Any of the Andes:

Abbr. 56 “Based on ___ story” 58 Metropolitan region that includes India’s capital 59 Old-time music hall 60 Translucent gem 61 Actress Moore of “G.I.

Jane” 62 G-rated oath 64 Looked at carefully 66 Obsolescent PC

monitor type