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1 Big, in adspeak 5 Game show
shout-out
10 “Miss ___ Regrets,” jazz standard performed by Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald
14 Draft picks 15 Grammy category 16 Sport shooting variety 17 After the top half of a 7-Down, sophisticated lady 19 Total War game
company
20 His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts
21 Lead-in to care
23 Icy remark?
24 When the Lyrid meteor shower typically peaks 26 Bucolic call
27 Sport shooting variety 29 King of cubs 30 Before the bottom half of a 7-Down, tipple and then some 32 That, en España 33 Carrie in
“Sex and the City” 34 Flash point? 36 Savage
40 Stopped producing new leads, as an investigation
44 Apt rhyme for
“lumberjacks” 45 After the top half of a 42-Down, circles around the block? 48 Leave out
49 Silly 50 “Live well” sloganeer 51 You can see right
through it
52 MC ___ of N.W.A 53 Talk up
55 Where you might
search for a lead? 56 Stained, in a way 58 Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided 62 Prerelease,
in Silicon Valley 63 Japanese automaker 64 Isle known as “The
Gathering Place” 65 Funk
66 Throat malady,
for short
67 Graph component
DOWN
1 Portrait seen on renminbi bank notes 2 Pole worker
3 “Cool it, lovebirds” 4 Rubbish receptacle 5 Cry of pain ...
or laughter
6 Major talking point
on CNBC, maybe 7 Hybrid creature
of myth
8 City sieged by
Joan of Arc
9 Anti-DUI org. 10 “Fourth periods” in
hockey, for short 11 A host of answers? 12 “Seconded”
13 Rival of Athens 18 Sushi bar choice 22 Follower of Christmas
or Easter
24 Son in “Tess of the
D’Urbervilles”
25 ___ Pizza (punny
trattoria name)
26 It may be wireless 28 Green smoothie
ingredient 30 Liquid-Plumr
alternative
31 Some tribal leaders on “Game of Thrones” 33 Playwright Bertolt 35 Bucolic beasts 37 Certain protective
parent, colloquially 38 Graph component 39 “Sounds like a plan” 41 Late-night
interviewee, e.g. 42 Hybrid creature
of myth
43 “Lord of the Rings”
baddie
45 Gummy candy brand 46 Kicked things off 47 Connect with
48 Hard one to teach,
in a saying
51 Inits. in a.m. TV 54 They might be tied using a taiko musubi (“drum knot”) 55 “Time ___!” 57 Maneuverable, in
nautical lingo 59 Philosopher Mo-___ 60 Sushi bar choice 61 Letdown at a
fireworks show
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