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1 Striker’s replacement 5 Tops off a cake 9 Totally beat 14 Five-star equivalent 15 Thumb hammerer’s cry 16 “___ porridge hot...” 17 1974 hit single for Harry Chapin 20 Oktoberfest container 21 Take it really easy 22 Blonde’s secret, maybe 23 Cliff top feature 25 Went like the blazes 27 Orator’s impediment 34 Baroque composer Jean-Philippe 35 Roughly speaking 36 “In advance of” prefix 37 Lead-ins to holidays 38 Your aunt, to your dad 39 Come across as 40 REM researcher’s tool 41 In addition to 43 Old Persian despot 45 Back stabbing type 48 Poetic meter 49 Cadbury Dairy Milk rival 50 Common hotel souvenir 52 Division the Jays play in 54 Bring joy to 58 Craziness 61 Kitchen shelf protector 62 Rent, as a limo 63 Niagara River’s source 64 Lunch room stack 65 Alleviate 66 They may be measured by the pound

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1 Marsupial pouches 2 Paint layer 3 Something that’s thrown in the pot 4 Overwhelms, in a way 5 Small item that always gets charged 6 Veal portion 7 Eerie recording effect 8 Homes for the homeless 9 When DST used to start 10 One in front 11 Gentlewoman 12 South Pacific getaway 13 Alumna’s bio word 18 Gandhi’s land 19 Stops bleeding 24 Antelope that sounds up-todate 26 Fraternity letter 27 Lets loose 28 Northern black bird 29 Big name in watches since 1894 30 Lift up 31 “La Traviata,” notably 32 Territories 33 Vacationers’ fill-ins 38 Catch some rays 39 Ambled along 41 Lentil’s cousin 42 Threshold (psychol.) 43 Take a dekko 44 Acquiesce 46 Controversial sexologist Alfred 47 Bigoted types 50 Twosome 51 Sizzling Sicilian spot 53 Islamic division 55 Big, bushy hair style 56 Math branch that covers all the angles? 57 Views longingly 58 Sandwich oft pinned by a toothpick 59 US org. that often gets returns? 60 Swarming beast