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1 Term of address in old Westerns

9 Survives, maybe

15 Freaking out

16 DNA sample source 17 Writer’s challenge

18 Ascent, for one

19 Crowd around

20 Show confidence in, with

“by”

22 “Seinfeld” surname

23 Touch

25 Short piece

27 2018 film for which Alfonso

Cuar—n won Best Director 28 Beersheba’s region 30 Organic fuel source

32 “The Color of Money” game 36 Enjoyed, with “up” 37 Controversial phenomenon in response to controversial actions

40 Disheveled do

41 “Capisce?”

42 They make a lot of calls 44 Inflexible

48 Kids’ song locale

49 Cries of success

52 Tireless assistant

53 Puppy

55 L.A.’s __ Museum of the

American West

58 Outlaw

59 Fix

61 “Anything’s possible” 63 Alicia Keys label

64 Got off the leash 65 View secretly 66 Penciled-in item

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1 Oscar winner as Woolf in

2002

2 Dress for court, maybe 3 Common name for a cockchafer

4 Covert __

5 Drains

6 One way to begin

7 Gymnast who won four

golds in Rio

8 Brilliance

9 Biblical mount

10 Slap (on)

11 Renaissance painter DŸrer 12 Setting for a Billy Joel classic 13 One hiding in the cushions? 14 Breakfast link

21 “Drag Race” host

24 Ark. neighbor

26 Ball charmer

29 Church official

31 Union setting

33 Site of Hercules’ first labor 34 “24” actress Cuthbert 35 Discreetly send a dupe to 37 Curt summons

38 Slice of Americana? 39 “Trinity” novelist

40 Spa treatment whose effects are temporary, per the FDA

43 “Lemme check”

45 Small Asian ape 46 Announcement that suggests strength

47 Homer or jack

50 Feminist poet Lorde

51 Many a pound adoptee 54 It’s a wrap

56 Surrealist Magritte

57 Dixie bunch?

60 Snitch

62 “You can’t mean me!”