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ACROSS
1 “Dragnet” force, in brief 5 Spirited steed 9 Bid 14 Calculus calculation 15 City with Aces Ballpark 16 Good news on Wall Street 17 Finishing up 20 ___ of time 21 “Miami Vice” informant 22 Baths 23 Affirmatives 25 Cleveland’s lake 27 “The way I see it,” briefly 30 Window-shopping locale 35 Avril follower 36 Go after 37 Hidden shooter 38 Shaw of the big band era 40 VCR button 42 President with a Nobel Prize 43 Chessmen, e.g. 45 What a vegan vetoes 47 Be an agent for, in brief 48 Great source of humor 50 Some airport announcements,
for short 51 TV host Banks 52 Set (down) 54 Where the Storting sits 57 Polo competitor 59 “Little Miss Sunshine” vehicle 63 Ponce de León’s quest 66 Spore spreaders 67 Hawaiian bird 68 TV’s “Deal ___ Deal” 69 Hiccup, e.g. 70 Elation 71 Like Easter eggs
DOWN
1 Acts 2 La Scala performance 3 One of the 53-Downs 4 Cool cat 5 Prince Valiant’s son 6 Checkout sight 7 DreamWorks’s first animated film 8 Sot 9 Tolkien meanie 10 Bone of the lower chest 11 Big failure 12 “Born Free” lioness 13 Some whiskeys 18 British suffix with formal 19 Actor Lew 24 Enzyme suffix 26 Otherwise 27 Apple ad line 28 Lopez of “Extra” 29 “___ where they ain’t” 31 Vermont ski resort 32 Dazzling gallery display 33 Home of the lion that Hercules
slew 34 Snares 36 Disreputable 39 Champagne bucket implement 41 “Bravo!” 44 Home of Damascus 46 Oklahoma city 49 Staring 50 Director of “Bride of the
Monster” 53 Prestigious Eastern school,
informally 54 Does in 55 Campbell’s product 56 ___ moth 58 Like Nash’s lama (not llama) 60 Put six feet under 61 ___ Reader 62 Having protected feet 64 Country singer McGraw 65 A.T.M. imposition