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1 Venus de Milo’s lack 5 Borrowers’ obligations 10 Uncoordinated people 14 Word with a double meaning?
15 Put forth 16 Condo, e.g. 17 Oscar winner Paquin 18 Cabinet department concerned with unpaid overtime 19 Bean curd 20 The “Terminator” remake featuring Achilles won a Saturn Award for best ... 23 “___ be my pleasure!” 24 Oklahoma’s secondlargest city 25 Bic offerings 26 Formerly known as 27 Spot for some me time 28 Microwave 31 Wheat protein 33 Trickery 36 Musical about a group of artists
37 When Zeus was unhappy with life, he was ... 40 Perseverance rover’s planet
42 Gets down to propose 43 Calls to mind 46 ___-Caps 47 Muscle twitch 50 Cut the lawn 51 “Bye-bye,” to a Brit 54 2021 Australian Open winner Osaka 56 HP products 57 When Athenians settled on the Nile, they named their town ... 60 Musical about a group of hippies 62 Grant permission for 63 Three-vowel berry
64 “I had no ___!” 65 Witherspoon of “Home Again” 66 Light-colored 67 Put in order 68 Beasts of burden 69 Some are named for monarchs DOWN
1 Alters for a new purpose 2 Adds to, as a tab 3 The Philippines’ capital 4 High-five sounds 5 Assembly place for heros? 6 Final or oral
7 Jazz genre 8 Valuable stash 9 Word before “bean” or “cheese” 10 Umpire’s cry 11 Chosen divinely 12 Age for a quinceanera 13 Pupil
21 Rare eye color 22 Immigrant’s class, perhaps: Abbr. 29 Congressional output 30 High point 32 Many have round bodies and narrow necks 33 Oval Office’s Resolute ___ 34 Relative of a B&B 35 Mon. follower 37 More sleepy 38 Farm layer? 39 “Home ___” (classic Christmas comedy)
40 Beale Street’s locale 41 Guacamole need 44 “Yada, yada, yada”: Abbr. 45 Much of North Africa 47 Matchbox plaything 48 Longtime Chevy named for an antelope 49 Minneapolis and Saint Paul 52 Parts of sliding puzzles 53 Where Van Gogh painted “The Night Cafe” 55 Openmouthed 58 Firefighter’s need
59 Has a mortgage, say 61 Pack ___ (hoarder)