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1 “___ goes it?” 4 Pow! 10 Rubber-stamp 14 2013 Twitter event, briefly 15 Café specification 16 Mad stepson in “I, Claudius” 17 High excitement 19 Took a gander at 20 Memorable hurricane of 2011 21 Performance with torches 23 Cement mixer input 24 Desire of one submitting a demo CD 25 Fertility clinic eggs 27 Profs’ paper graders, often 28 Workout attire that became a 1980s fad 35 “Holy cow!” 38 Taking after 39 Driver’s ed enrollee, e.g. 41 Deadeye’s asset 42 Great Sphinx locale 44 Bottom of a gym? 46 Mineral suffix 48 Suffix with planet 49 Debut time for many TV shows 55 After the bell 59 Flying nocturnal insect 60 Puts the kibosh on 61 Greek goddess of the earth: Var. 62 Extra-care items for movers … or a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 28-, 44- and 49-Across 64 Libidinous god 65 Classic game consoles 66 Greek H 67 Mardi Gras follower 68 Part of the Wyndham hotel group 69 Like a shrinking violet

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1 Players of 45s 2 “Cavalleria Rusticana,” for one 3 Like wickerwork 4 Ending with metal or mal5 Start of a drill sergeant’s count 6 Phrase in some biography titles 7 Ronco Veg-o-___ 8 Smaller than small 9 None of the above 10 Vitamin frequency, often 11 Like many mainstream economic theorists 12 Betel nut-yielding tree 13 Alpine call 18 Fund, as a foundation 22 E.P.A.-banned pesticide 24 Hardest-to-find items for a collector 26 Kilmer who played Batman 28 Online gaming annoyance 29 “The Book of ___” (Denzel Washington

movie) 30 Huge amount, slangily 31 Backwoods parent 32 Bard’s preposition 33 Genetic messenger 34 Determined to achieve 36 Word before boss or bull 37 Ambulance letters 40 N.Y. sch. whose team is the

Engineers 43 “Maybe even more” 45 Ditch the script 47 Guinness suffix 49 1993 Economics co-Nobelist Robert 50 In the know 51 Confine to jail 52 Line from the heart 53 Early car powerer 54 U.S. women’s soccer star Kelley 56 Trucker’s toll factor 57 Elephants’ tusks, essentially 58 Op-ed piece 60 Probe-launching org. 63 Not be serious