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1 Big wheel in Abu Dhabi 5 Sign of satisfaction 9 Toot one’s horn 14 Aglet locale 15 Start from the top 16 Costume designer Head 17 Vegas magic act with white tigers and 14 bushels of grain? 20 What you get, with time 21 Nation once known as Pleasant Island 22 Japanese currency unit 23 Basketball need 25 Imperfect gravy feature 27 Notable whiskey? 33 Mth. with most of Leo 34 Canada’s fashionable Campbell 35 Underground Railroad user 38 Noted Lady of rock 40 Mombasa’s land 43 Rope tow alternative 44 Watchdog’s warning 46 Portuguese lady 48 Grain holder 49 Bread baked outside in the summer heat? 53 Tibetan Dharma teacher 54 180 deg. from WNW 55 Whole shebang 58 Bar mitzvahs or baptisms 61 Classical lyric poem 65 Salinger’s unpublished work about a drunken dog pound employee? 68 Shipping container 69 Type of presentation 70 Doesn’t feel well 71 Christmas story villain 72 Vidal’s Breckinridge 73 Ornamental tinware
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1 And in addition... 2 Pony-express haul 3 Tended to a sprain 4 University official 5 Doberman’s warning 6 Part of a harness 7 Creative flash 8 Small lump of mineral 9 Deadens 10 Bizarre 11 Bright and breezy 12 Red eye cause, maybe 13 At the time 18 Banned refrigerant 19 Calla lily, e.g. 24 Long, arduous journey 26 Throw tomatoes at 27 Tramp’s attire 28 Taiwanese dollar 29 Samantha of “Doctor Dolittle” 30 Garden of Eden resident 31 Fixes 32 “Fiddler on the Roof” figure 36 Stuck on oneself 37 Fish-eating European eagle 39 Benzene-based compound 41 Second person person 42 Rice of “The Vampire Chronicles” 45 Highly educated 47 Financial positive 50 Miss 51 Sailor’s depth unit 52 Count Basie was one 55 St. Louis landmark 56 Zither’s ancestor 57 One of Shakespeare’s kings 59 Creepy (var.) 60 Bad gash reminder 62 State with the tomato as an official fruit 63 Quiet valley 64 Tongue related to Manx 66 “What was ___ do?” 67 Dinner ___ carte