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1 Shipwreck signal 4 Stan of Marvel Comics 7 Catch in a trap 12 Time period 13 Off-roader’s purchase, for short 14 Quest for intel 15 *Instant in which emotional decisions are made 18 Middle-earth menace 19 Female surfer 20 Times to remember 21 Got a lift, in a way 23 Popular mints 25 Tea container 27 Gradually come to be 31 Wander about 33 Pasture 35 Where one may be taken to be reprimanded 36 Verb in a recipe 37 Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? 40 Tennis court divider 41 Family gathering attendee 43 Pacific Coast st. 44 Loch with a legend 45 Ties to a post 48 Rene of “Get Shorty” 50 Show flexibility 52 Dampen, as sound 55 Help in a bad way? 58 Coral named for its shape 60 Wheaton who played himself on “The Big Bang Theory” 61 *Defeat soundly 64 More despicable 65 Talk trash to 66 Cork’s country 67 Cowboy singer Gene 68 Uneaten morsel 69 Ship in Genesis
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1 *Flaky type 2 Cheerios grain 3 Came down in flakes 4 Plastering strip 5 Value system 6 Tied, as a score 7 “Seats all taken” sign 8 Archrivals 9 Asian laptop brand 10 Barrett of gossip 11 Tolkien tree race 12 Macedonian neighbor 15 MLB’s Astros, on scoreboards 16 “Fiddle-__!” 17 Trifling 22 Battering __ 24 Spot on the tube 26 Vote of support 28 *Employment field 29 Keats works 30 Vets’ concerns 31 Rave’s partner 32 Dog in the comics 34 Brouhaha 37 Owner’s document 38 Blunder 39 Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. __ 42 Idle talk 44 Bounced-check letters 46 Reckless 47 Racer’s bathing suit 49 Naturally brewed beverage 51 Animal with a snout 53 Vitality 54 Santa helper 55 Palindromic pop group 56 Steady guy 57 Toward sunrise 59 Speedy 62 “Do or do not. There is no __”: Yoda 63 Title for Paul or Ringo