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1 Sarcasm indicator 10 Rating org. 14 It may give you a final answer 16 Baseball’s Eddie who was nick
named “The Walking Man” 17 Real head-turners 18 Vino place 19 Antagonistic org. in “The
Simpsons Movie” 20 Speaker of the film line “This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it” 21 Libertine’s opposite 23 Spanish cardinal 25 Fall sensation 27 Activity studied in onomastics 28 Currently playing 30 Brandy or whiskey 32 What a monkey may see or hear 34 “Groundhog Day” director 35 Groups of three 37 Nuclear ___ 40 Discharge 42 Season finale? 44 Electrical room device 48 Probed 49 Not likely to judge 50 First of 50: Abbr. 52 Jennifer of the BBC production
“Pride and Prejudice” 53 Capitol Hill sight 55 Young hunk, say 57 Cyrillic letter between kha and
che 58 Desert mount 59 Union in 1999 news 62 Kind of tower 63 Modify an order? 64 Forum being 65 Is clearly #1
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1 Dean of the Truman cabinet 2 “That would be bad!” 3 Legal tender? 4 Chewable Mideast stimulant 5 Hexagon on a map 6 13th-century empire founder 7 Muse of comedy 8 Smoked delicacy 9 Slip through the cracks 10 Elvis Costello’s debut album 11 Tacky yellow thing 12 Kazakhstan’s capital 13 Not much, colorwise 15 Great swells 22 Showing severe erosion,
maybe 24 Coin featuring a hammer
and sickle 26 What may follow “NO” 29 Lead pilot’s support 31 A.F.L.-C.I.O. affiliate 33 First African-American
golfer to play in the Masters 36 Retired boomer 38 Like some old gaming
consoles 39 Not reduced or enlarged 41 “Better Off ___” (former ABC
sitcom) 43 Politico Michael and others 44 Decorated pilot 45 Ovid opus 46 Wrecks 47 1990s party name 51 Sound of silence? 54 Reduced drastically 56 Cyclops, e.g., in comic books 60 Unhelpful noughts-and-crosses
line 61 ___ mission