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ACROSS 1 Dupe 8 Like many PDFs 15 Red-hot 16 Letter 17 Salvage a bad

situation 19 Hungarian city known for “Bull’s Blood” wine 20 One catching

the game 21 Two-time Best Rock Album Grammy winner 22 Acted like a

sponge 24 Neighbor of

Hercules 25 Critical hosp.

setting 26 Founding member of the Star Alliance, for short 27 Automaker

Adam 30 Mole removal

option 32 Goth relative 33 “___ Bein’ Bad” (Sawyer Brown country hit) 36 25-Across sights 37 Flipped out 40 Swinging halter,

for short 41 Almost fall 42 Last item bagged, often: Abbr. 45 Milling

byproducts 47 “___ Plays Monterey” (posthumous 1986 album) 48 Chairman ___ (hoops nickname) 49 1958-61 polit.

alliance 50 Roger

Staubach’s sch. 53 Home of Sinbad

the sailor 55 “Idol ___”

(Mozart aria) 56 Cold war

weapon? 59 Sorority letters 60 Too pooped to

pop 63 Mathematical

physicist Roger 64 Assorted 65 Have meals

delivered 66 Like some tea DOWN 1 Mature 2 Antes up for

peanuts? 3 Open house invitation 4 Rear admiral’s rear 5 Iguana, maybe 6 Music to a masseur’s ears 7 Troglodytes troglodytes 8 Grinding material 9 Jack Benny persona 10 Like some giants and dwarfs 11 Prefix with

kinetic 12 Why “there’s no time for fussing and fighting,” per a Beatles hit 13 Shows that one

has 14 GPS button 18 Go for broke 23 Kind of beef 28 Fresh 29 Couch

attachment? 31 2008 TARP

recipient 34 Humanoid

cryptid 35 Feel 38 Part of many a

German name 39 Smidgen 40 It shows small parts of the picture 43 Whoop it up 44 Like many newlyweds and bagels 45 “Leatherstocking

Tales” hero 46 One may give a

ring 51 “My bad, Mario!” 52 Spiff (up), in

dialect 54 See 62-Down 57 Some indicator

lamps, briefly 58 “The Little Mermaid” prince 61 Post-hurricane handout, for short 62 With 54-Down, Best Supporting Actress nominee for 1945’s “Mildred Pierce”