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1 Go out,as the tide 4 Permit 7 Reply to a captain 10 Brewpub offering, for short 13 Org. that targets traffickers 14 Raised, as a building 16 Partner of neither 17 Mountain on which you might yodel 18 Stockpiling, in a way,as feed 19 Letters in a personals ad 20 Gymnastics floor cover 21 Directive for additional information 22 Cartoon pic 23 Get out of bed 25 TVwarrior princess 26 Race loser in an Aesop fable 27 Reflective sorts 29 Fur wraps 31 This: Sp. 32 It’s usually behind a viola in an orchestra 36 Flexible Flyers, e.g. 37 Present time in England? …or a hint to each set of shaded squares 40 Lispers’banes 43 Scrubbed,as a NASAmission 44 Be ___ equal footing 48 Bear witness (to) 50 Soviet premier Khrushchev 52 Caviars 53 Try, as a case 57 Track events 58 Lobster ___ diavolo (Italian dish) 59 Hit pay dirt 61 “You ___!” (“Absolutely!”) 62 On the ___ (fleeing) 63 Literary critic Broyard 64 Actress Thurman 65 Get older 66 Bruno Mars or Freddie Mercury 67 Some PCs 68 The“p”in m.p.g. 69 Ram’s mate 70 Stockholm’s home:Abbr. 71 U.S.P.S. assignment: Abbr.
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1 Sushi bar finger food 2 Country whose currency, RUBLES,is almost an anagram of its name 3 St.John the ___ 4 ___ Antilles 5 Pennsylvania city or the lake it’s on 6 Bygone point-to-point communication 7 Suffix with valid 8 Gossipy sorts 9 Border 10 Proportional to the surroundings 11 Motorized 12 Like the Venus de Milo 15 Summer t reat that melts in the sun 24 Naval engineers 26 Massachusetts’ Mount ___ College 28 Chi-town squad 30 Airport screening grp. 33 Container for dirty clothes 34 Yoko who l oved Lennon 35 Common ingredient in pasta 38 C.I.A. precursor 39 Mafia big 40 Batting helmet part 41 Use for an attic or the cloud 42 Ship with smokestacks 45 Theologian Reinhold who wrote the Serenity Prayer 46 Try 47 Ilie who won both the U.S. and French Opens 49 What meditators try to live in 51 Cry upon arriving 54 Tour de France stage 55 Martial ___ (judo and others) 56 Violent protests 59 Stare slackjawed 60 Part of a wolf or a lobster