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1 “The Lord of the Rings” creatures 5 Sprinkle with holy water 10 Number in a quartet 14 Muck 15 Preceded, with “to” 16 Loll 17 New ___ (Enya type) 18 Licoricelike flavor 19 Colored part of the eye 20 Friendly comment after providing information 23 Sports stadium 24 Lesser-played part of a 45 25 Cellist Casals 28 Puccini opera or its heroine 32 Put ___ happy face 34 Goes “pop!,” as a jack-in-the-box 38 Shakespeare in the Park founder/ producer Joseph 40 Italian birthplace of Paganini 41 Captain ___ (pirate) 42 Rome’s nickname, with “the” 45 Lock unlocker 46 The king, in France 47 Volleyball star Gabrielle 49 Cuckoo ___ 53 French words describing how roast beef is often served 56 Author of the verse that starts with the beginnings of 20-, 34- and 42-Across 59 Coca-___ 61 Bramble 62 ___ about (approximately) 63 Prefix with lock 64 Whiskered creature 65 Loaned 66 Dynamite sound 67 Insects with big stingers 68 Where sailors go
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1 Nebraska’s largest city 2 Severity 3 Party streamer material 4 One of the Williams sisters 5 Lacking pizazz 6 Sultry singer Horne 7 Does some magazine work 8 Fish-on-rice serving 9 Put the pedal to the metal 10 Simple means of animation 11 They’re in locks on a boat 12 Israeli-made gun 13 In medias ___ 21 Keep ___ on (watch) 22 Tennis do-overs 26 Org. for women drivers 27 Pitcher Hershiser 29 Quirky bandleader with the City Slickers 30 Give up 31 Handy-___ 32 German automaker 33 Kids’ detective ___ the Great 35 “Monsters, ___” 36 Alternative to rouge in roulette 37 Box-office take 39 Declare loudly 43 River near the Pyramids 44 2013, e.g. 48 Domelike top 50 U-shaped bend in a river 51 Magna ___ 52 Makes woolen bootees, e.g. 54 Slightly leading in score 55 Mattress brand 56 Voice below soprano 57 Shallow’s opposite 58 Makes mistakes 59 Hack’s vehicle 60 Yoko who married John