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1 Kids around 6 Just about every character on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” 9 Actress Christina 14 Created for a particular purpose, as a committee 15 Big fuss
16 Like the gases neon and argon, but not oxygen and hydrogen 17 Features of most hotel doors
19 City that’s the setting for several van Gogh paintings 20 Denouement 21 Last words of a threat 23 Designer Gucci 24 Gibberish 26 Spins, as a baton 29 Flying insect with a narrow waist 30 Costa ___
31 Not do takeout at a restaurant
34 All the rage 37 What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? 41 Mini-albums, for short
42 Like streakers 43 What you might build a winter fort with
44 Avid
46 Pickled green garnishes 48 Medical impostors, informally
53 “For ___ us a child is born ...” 54 Muscular 55 Actress Kravitz of “Big Little Lies” 58 Singer of the 2015 #1 hit “Hello” 60 Bar with country music
62 More decisive 63 Ma that might baa 64 Knight stick? 65 Hermann who wrote “Siddhartha” 66 Fire truck’s color 67 Olympians’ blades
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1 Wisecrack 2 Home for Adam and Eve
3 What dogs do in the spring 4 Apex
5 Group of fish 6 Spy sent by Moses into Canaan 7 Three-time
Pro Bowler ___ Beckham Jr. 8 Sheriff’s group 9 Narrow inlet 10 Shabbily dressed 11 Film about food? 12 Belief system 13 “There, there” 18 Spheres 22 Dickens’s “The Mystery of ___ Drood” 24 Steffi of tennis fame
25 Yin’s partner 26 “Can’t argue with that”
27 Puff of smoke 28 Performers in a rink
31 Animal at Yellowstone National Park
32 Beverage for a darts player, perhaps 33 Small amount 35 Frankenstein’s assistant in “Young Frankenstein” 36 Basilica benches 38 Brief race, in brief 39 Things wizards wave 40 Mailing letters? 45 Places to take French classes 46 Bop on the head 47 Popular pattern for socks and sweaters 48 Suppress 49 Excessive, as influence 50 Catchall category 51 Actor Russell or director Cameron 52 Muscular 55 Certain basketball defense
56 “___ bitten, twice shy”
57 Just manages, with “out” 59 Before, in verse 61 Spigot
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