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1 Bit of resistance 4 Where or why, in Latin 7 Pats, e.g., before 1970 13 Nowhere to be found, informally 14 Radius neighbor 16 Subject of a notable 2016 referendum 17 “The only serious thing in the world,” per Oscar Wilde 18 Manhattan’s ___ Village 19 Mercury, on the periodic table 20 Biography subtitled “The Invention of India” 22 Able but unwilling to read
24 It’s debatable 25 Stadium cry
26 Trifling amount 27 Perceived intuitively 30 Exam that takes 2 hrs. and 45 mins.
33 It has a top and a bottom with nothing in between
36 Damage
the reputation of
37 Do monumental work? 38 Trounce, informally 39 Get seen by, like,
everyone
42 Bird whose wings are used as stabilizers, not for flying
43 Old English Christmas
meat 45 France’s ___ du Bourget
46 Joshed
48 Back in the day 49 Ljubljana resident 51 Fast-food inits. 53 “Vous êtes ___” 54 Words of compassion 58 Buckskins
61 1953 prize for Churchill 62 Ride to the World Trade
Center
63 Give ___ (yank)
65 It ends in diciembre 66 At original speed, musically
67 When repeated, Mork’s sign-off
68 Motor oil brand
69 Like New York City drivers, in popular belief
70 Soak (up) 71 Oxford-to-London dir.
DOWN
1 Neighbor of a Yemeni 2 56-Down, across the 15-Down
3 Numbers class, in England
4 41-Down, across the 15-Down
5 Suffix with form 6 Comedian Aziz
7 Drive a getaway car for, say
8 52-Down, across the 15-Down 9 Surfer’s tether 10 35-Down, across the 15-Down
11 Film director Martin 12 Ocular malady 15 “Pond” 21 Designer Gernreich 23 “Rumor has it …” 28 Early strings
29 Male duck 31 Crowning point 32 What a load might land with
33 Common clown name 34 Triumphant boast 35 10-Down, across the
15-Down
40 Bona fide
41 4-Down, across the
15-Down
44 Phrase differently, as a question
47 Like the BBC’s headquarters, architecturally 50 Prospects
52 8-Down, across the
15-Down
55 Take down a peg 56 2-Down, across the 15-Down
57 Avoid having an arranged marriage, maybe
58 Honeybunch 59 Caesarean rebuke 60 Past the regulation
period, informally 64 One, to Juan