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1 Airway or pipe 5 Gulf Coast catch 11 ___ gen. 14 Part of A.D. 15 Where Caterpillar is headquartered 16 Carry a balance 17 Intangible feeling, informally 18 Cars introduced with much fanfare on “E Day” 19 “I do,” e.g. 20 M 22 It has a 50% chance 24 Shoppe descriptor 25 Composer Thomas 26 Generous 29 Like much of Montana 33 Forte, on a score 34 ___-l’oeil (illusion) 36 Opening number 37 Sphere 38 Dining table decorations 39 Big oaf 40 Fail as a night guard, say 41 Traitor in the Revolutionary War 42 Spanish for “table” 43 Party clothes 45 Gains, as in the stock market 46 Punjabi for “disciple” 47 “Chocolate” dogs 49 Hartford-based insurance giant 51 W 56 Part of STEM: Abbr. 57 Experience anew 59 Lacking slack 60 Resistance unit 61 Bird on a Froot Loops box 62 ___ Taft Benson (1980s-’90s Mormon leader) 63 Adversary 64 Dismissive looks 65 Common laborer
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1 “Affirmative, ___, I read you” (line in “2001: A Space Odyssey”) 2 Pioneering computer operating system 3 Stock watcher’s network 4 Starting progress, metaphorically 5 Not be a tightwad 6 Guard one’s bets 7 Wine variety 8 States of pique 9 Thousand G’s 10 T 11 P 12 Runaway G.I. 13 Seder celebrants 21 What’s brewing, maybe 23 Santa ___ winds 25 All fired up 26 “I knew it all ___” 27 Upstanding 28 D 29 Recital pieces 30 Pianist Gilels 31 Occupied, as a lav 32 “At the Milliner’s” painter 34 Holy text 35 Part of the Olympics logo 38 What sorcerers practice … or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle 42 Blunder 44 Cacophony 45 One of 2,297 for Hank Aaron, in brief 47 Actor Burton 48 Church chorus? 49 Since 50 Something you might hear in an empty building 51 Off-color, paradoxically 52 Big nits 53 Hangover feeling 54 Lead-in to zone 55 Musial in Cooperstown 58 Years and years