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1 Inflatable item 5 Biological pouches 9 “___ right up!” 13 Horrible boss 14 Like Utopia 16 Allowance for weight 17 Quiz option, often 18 Saucy condiment 19 Leave the stage 20 Not well thoughtout 22 Deters 24 Bad joke’s sound? 26 Kind of palm or nut 27 Back payments 30 Ocean bottoms 33 Japanese delicacy 35 Mold 37 Well- chosen 38 Exercise, as power 41 New Zealand bird, once 42 Iron 45 Anxiety maybea symptom of it 48 Ruby’s live- TV victim 51 With expertise 52 Sign after Pisces 54 “... happily ___ after” 55 Rates racehorses 59 Crops, as a snapshot 62 Certain newspaper piece 63 “Put two and two together,” e. g. 65 Click, as the fingers 66 Act the crybaby 67 Aquarium beauty 68 Homely fruit? 69 Scot’s language 70 Must have 71 Quieter “Looky here!”

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1 IRA type 2 Taj Mahal town 3 Gets one’s goat 4 Cuts canines 5 Nickname within the family 6 Jewish month before Nisan 7 Paparazzi target, briefly 8 Spoke impudently to 9 Bomber attribute 10 It’s hailed by city dwellers 11 “___ go bragh!” 12 Hamsters, often 15 Cafe concoction 21 Chinese river 23 Exercise units 25 Audience attracter 27 Pronto 28 Copy 29 Enjoy the bunny slope 31 Renders powerless 32 Baby 34 When dark comes o’er the land 36 “___ does it” 39 Grassy field 40 Kind of ranch 43 Wrap tightly with a blanket 44 Calcutta dress 46 Info froma tachometer 47 Speaks freely and candidly 49 According to law 50 Apply novocaine to 53 Acrimony 55 “Where the heart is” 56 Impersonator 57 Kind of wire 58 Like some losers 60 Coterie components 61 Barbecue utensil 64 Like some scientists