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ACROSS

1 Harley, e.g. 4 First of all 8 Cartoonist who said “I don’t read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly” 14 Speaker’s aid 16 “The Glass Menagerie” woman 17 Paddle pusher 18 Indulge 19 Grasped 20 Ball holder 21 Kitchen gizmos 22 Bartlett’s, e.g. 24 Pet saying? 26 Coll. units 27 What a public

scene may elicit 30 Gets ready to play,

say, with “up” 33 Hunt’s production 34 What some waiters

never see? 35 Prepare to plant,

perhaps 36 Lowercase letter illustrated six times in this puzzle? 38 Actor Stephen 41 Shoes and socks,

typically 42 Start to take off

one’s pants, say 44 Girl’s name meaning “beautiful” 45 Constituency 46 Lead 47 Slumber party togs 50 Rap’s Dr. ___ 51 Senility 54 ___ card 56 Newswoman

Paula 59 Not shoot for the stars, to put it mildly 60 “I’m not the only

one!” 62 River to the

Missouri 63 Vitamin, e.g. 64 Some plasma TVs and digital cameras 65 Roman rebuke 66 Poor grade

DOWN

1 Break (into) 2 ___ incline (tilted) 3 Produce 4 Suffix with orange 5 “Go ahead!” 6 Flummoxed 7 Thing that might have a needle 8 “Charlie’s Angels” actress 9 French mine? 10 Wheel with sloped

teeth 11 Contemptuous

responses 12 They may be picked up in a locker room 13 Indian breads 15 Crouches in fear 23 Like England in

the Middle Ages 25 Arctic ice 27 Tech, e.g.: Abbr. 28 Subject of

meditation 29 Turn 31 Make sense 32 Made up 34 Some sports cars 37 Part of a drain 38 Passed on, in a

way 39 Bracket shape 40 Had 41 It’s an imposition 43 Russian

wolfhound 44 For whom Alfred Pennyworth is a butler 46 “Behold!” 48 Old-time actress

Meadows 49 Corpulent 51 Fist-bumps 52 Attend 53 Female Cotswolds 55 Kennel club reject,

no doubt 57 Sharpen 58 ___ to self 61 “___ Hill,” 1996

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