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ACROSS

1 One of a popular TV game show duo 6 Not present when expected, for short 9 Block 14 Many a “Today” show sign 15 Goof 16 Silly 17 Predecessor of Ariel Sharon 19 Number of days in una semana 20 Questionnaire response column 21 Practiced 22 Queen of Denmark, 1947-72 23 Moravian capital 24 Object 25 Request that would complete 42Across 31 One looking down 32 Some fuzz 33 ___-weekly 35 When a right is sometimes allowed 36 Rocky peak 37 Novelist whose first wife had the same first name, curiously 39 Vet, e.g. 40 Boxer’s response 41 Title figure in a Mitch Albom best seller 42 When completed, popular TV program starting in 1975 46 Man’s name meaning “young man” 47 Black 48 Meeting place for mathematicians? 51 Linear, in brief 52 Confusion 55 Erase 56 Military protection 58 Thunders 59 Suffix with winter 60 A long time 61 Yes or no follower 62 Land once partly held by the Crusaders: Abbr. 63 One of a popular TV game show duo

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1 “Say ___” 2 Longtime Ritz competitor 3 “___ in the Morning” 4 9-Down fox 5 Made a start 6 Certain red 7 “Dies ___” 8 Couples cruise locale? 9 See 4-Down and 36-Down 10 It’s a mystery 11 Heavyweight champ after Carnera 12 Fighting 13 Crumhorn, e.g. 18 Commander of Saul’s army, in I Samuel 22 Live ___ 23 Dentist’s directive 24 Construction beam 25 Mini, for one 26 “What should I ___?” 27 Clumsy move 28 Kind of switch 29 Pacific nation 30 The British Museum’s ___ Marbles 34 Something to fill in 36 1982 9-Down movie 37 You might go to bed early before these 38 Like many gallerygoers 40 “Family Ties” boy 41 Some Monopoly game equipment 43 Sign of an absent mind 44 Nonrhyming poetry 45 One earning a fee, maybe 48 Devices with spools 49 Wells race 50 Raise 51 Like mud 52 Key with three sharps: Abbr. 53 Seven-year-old explorer 54 Ural River city 56 Ones sexually flexible, for short 57 Actor Stephen