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Crossword

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Across

1 Fix, as a cat 5 “Get cracking!” 9 “Jurassic Park” insect casing 14 Pack animal 15 “___ girl!” 16 First lady after Hillary 17 “That’s my cue!” 18 Like Dorothy’s slippers 19 Boston airport 20 Toe testing the waters? 23 Potentiall­y dangerous bacterium 24 ExxonMobil? 28 “___ Comedy Jam” 29 Command to Rover 32 “Bald-faced” thing 33 “Who goes there, friend or ___?” 34 Bowling scoresheet unit 36 Square dance site

37 Oscar nominees’ gathering? 41 Vittles 43 Manipulate, as bread dough 44 Bird that hoots 45 Mai ___ (cocktail) 48 Admit, with “up to”

49 ’50s high school

dance 52 Bashful? 55 Inventory items 57 Total hottie? 60 Simple pond life 63 “Me as well” 64 “Voulez-vous coucher ___ moi ce soir?”

65 It may be reasonable to a jury 66 Catches forty winks 67 Intertwine 68 New Mexican pueblo builders 69 Exuberance 70 Regarding, in a memo

Down

1 Wore an upsidedown frown 2 Volcanic rock 3 Many, many 4 1983 film in which Barbra Streisand dresses as a man 5 Suffix with million

6 ___ poker 7 Equally large 8 E-commerce site formerly owned by eBay 9 Declare to be true 10 Native New Zealanders 11 Computer program glitch 12 Paleozoic or Mesozoic 13 Sought political office

21 “The Scales” constellat­ion 22 Greek letter before omega 25 Quite a distance off

26 Neither’s partner 27 Hamilton’s bill 30 Body part to

lend or bend 31 Big inits. in trucks 34 1-800-FLOWERS alternativ­e 35 Certain fraternal order member 36 Place to dream 37 Successful auctioneer’s last word 38 Commercial game with wild cards

39 Put in stitches 40 Having an aftertaste, as some barbecue sauce 41 Debate position against “against” 42 Have debts 45 140-character messages 46 Drivers’ org. 47 John who wrote The World According to Garp 49 Reindeer feet 50 Most bizarre 51 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller

53 Abu ___ (Mideast land) 54 Prebirth 56 President who won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

58 “Ain’t happening”

59 Finish second 60 Woodworkin­g tool 61 Baseballer Gehrig

62 Rifle or revolver

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