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1 One-named singer with the hit “Dark Lady” 5 Regions 10 Little ’uns 14 The “R” of the Supreme Court’s R.B.G. 15 Tropical fruit 16 Rude sound at the dinner table
17 Palo ___, Calif. 18 Milk source on a dairy cow 19 Asterisk 20 Flower of the tree Prunus mume 23 Bread bag closer 24 “How ya ___?” 25 Money back on a purchase 27 Month with no federal holidays 30 Hairstyle option 32 What cold weather may bring 33 Bringer of cold weather 36 See 8-Down 37 ___-hole (place to secrete oneself) 38 Word before whiz 39 Winged beast on the Welsh flag 42 Lindsay of “The Parent Trap” 44 Forms a mass of small bubbles 45 Place to store canned goods 46 “Take that!” 48 Nickname for grandma 49 Make a mistake
50 Game piece on which 20-, 33- or 39-Across might be pictured 56 One-named singer with the hit “Orinoco Flow” 58 Hairstyle option 59 Word between File and View on a menu bar 60 Gourmand’s passion 61 The Little Mermaid 62 ___ mater 63 Small earring 64 “Gimme a C …!” and “Go team!” 65 Dee ___, director of “Bessie” and “Mudbound”
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1 “Oh, no!” 2 Main body of a ship
3 “___, Brute?” 4 Diamond shape, in geometry 5 Trinket worn for luck 6 Gas detected by home test kits
7 Gets discontinued 8 With 36-Across, in the distant past 9 Alpha Kappa Alpha, for one 10 Basic cable channel that’s part of WarnerMedia Entertainment 11 “Awesome!” 12 Personality facet
13 Unrestrained shopping trip 21 Superlative 22 Work well together 26 Texter’s “Oh, just remembered …”
27 Miles away 28 Impulse 29 Comment made with a pat on the back 30 Commotions 31 Bird whose head doesn’t make a sound? 33 Close 34 Close 35 When tripled, a liar’s mantra 37 “The Princess Diaries” actress Anne 40 Rainless 41 Travel all over the place
42 A.P. ___ (high school English course, for short) 43 Rampaging 45 Receptors for solar energy 46 Complaints 47 “… well, never mind then” 48 “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “The Maltese Falcon” 51 “Take this!” 52 One corner on a Monopoly board 53 Inactive 54 Garnish for a Corona 55 Scheduling guesses that might be updated in midair, for short 57 Subtract’s opposite