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1 Vaping device, informally
5 ___ Roy, patriarch on HBO’S “Succession”
10 Successfully solicit, with “up”
14 Arizona city near the California border
15 Where Dalmatia is
16 NPR’S ___ Totenberg
17 Stand-in for the unnamed
18 Monopoly cards
19 Buffalo Bill’s surname
20 Walked
22 End
24 It has a cedar tree on its flag: Abbr.
25 World’s highest-paid actor in 2021, familiarly
27 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner
29 Brand of taco kits and sauces
30 Mobile homes of a sort
32 Castle defenses
33 Bargain bin abbr.
35 N.Y.C. nabe near N.Y.U.
36 Life preserver? … or a hint to six squares in this puzzle
39 ___ Romeo
42 Starting lineup
43 Dispirit, with “out”
46 Heraldic symbol
49 Noted Venetian bridge
51 Separate seed from
52 Be perfectly sized
53 The “e” of “i.e.”
54 Home to the golden pavilion known as Kinkaku-ji
57 Planted
58 ___ Jones, former Alabama senator
60 Best ever, in sports slang
62 Org. known for counting backward
64 “Yeah ... I don’t think so”
65 Fresh blood
66 Mobile home?
67 Actress Amanda
68 Works hard, old-style
69 Some creatures in the ocean’s “midnight zone”
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1 ___ of Ra, symbolic depiction in Egyptian art
2 Dog-eat-dog
3 Turkish inns
4 In large numbers
5 Flat-screen option, for short
6 Rival of Hoover
7 Facial feature named for an animal
8 Operatic daughter of the king Amonasro
9 World capital on the island of New Providence
10 Blues org.?
11 1970 John Wayne film
12 Sworn
13 “It’s possible”
21 Prairie stray
23 Chicago conveyances
25 Waits on an album release?
26 Late media columnist David
28 Cohort before millennials, for short
30 Begins to get exciting, with “up”
31 It’s not a good look
34 Chew (out)
36 Spot of espresso?
37 Italian home to the Basilica of St. Nicholas
38 Excludes
39 Misbehaved
40 Repulsive
41 Magazine with an annual Investor’s Guide
43 Extraneous computer programs that slow down a system
44 Part of a place setting
45 Rapper Kool ___ Dee
47 Pose
48 Beat
50 Immediately
52 Economics Nobelist Robert
55 Where I-70 meets I-71
56 Polo on TV
59 Snookered
61 National Book Award winner for “Them,”
1970
63 They’re used in a crunch