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1 Battery fluid 5 Wide keyboard

key 10 Loch ___

monster 14 Variety of

wrestling 15 Overcharge 16 Loads and loads 17 Extremely

obstinate 20 Kathmandu’s

land 21 Little League

coach, often 22 Ushered 23 Rikki- tikki-___ ( Kipling mongoose) 25 City in Spain or

Ohio 26 Person who’s talented but not versatile 31 “To be, or not to

be” speaker 32 Sleep like ___ 33 To the ___ ( fully) 36 Charades player,

essentially 37 Fortuneteller’s

card 39 Road shoulder 40 Foxy 41 Negligible 42 Rest of the

afternoon 44 Notable ( and grammatically incorrect) declaration by Mr. Bumble in “Oliver Twist” 46 Top dogs 49 Curb, with “in” 50 Urban’s

opposite 51 Staple of sci- fi filmmaking, for short 53 Web site? 57 Acting haughtily

and pompously 60 Fell to the

seabed 61 Figure made by

a figure skater 62 Document with the line “I hereby bequeath…” 63 Work units, in

physics 64 Chooses actors

for 65 London’s ___

Coward Theater

Down

1 The first “A” of

N. A. A. C. P.: Abbr. 2 Like puppies

and kittens 3 “No need to

wake me” 4 Fight ( with) 5 “I” problem? 6 Light- skinned

and blond, say 7 Fish that’s a

sushi staple 8 “Holy mackerel!” 9 Hi-___ monitor 10 To wit 11 Escape capture

by 12 Not liquid or

gaseous 13 ___ pad ( reporter’s notebook) 18 Trumpet 19 “Moving right

___…” 24 Food, informally 25 1982 comedy for which Jessica Lange won Best Supporting Actress 26 Units of

resistance 27 Execute perfectly, as a routine 28 TV award 29 Destiny 30 West Bank inits. 33 Big butte 34 ___ and crafts 35 Big workday for

Saint Nick 38 Not feel 100% 39 Boston,

informally 41 Oil- producing

rock 43 ___ Thomas, N. B. A. Hall-ofFamer 44 “Appreciate it!” 45 Orville orWilbur 46 Came up 47 Like some

eclipses 48 Point on antlers 51 “Pet” that’s a

plant 52 Play dates? 54 The Supremes,

e. g. 55 ___ of Man 56 Prison

compartment 58 Instant, for short 59 Elevations: Abbr.