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1 Combat sport on pay-per-view, in brief
4 On the ___ of
the moment
8 Like oversize
clothes
13 ___ milk (nondairy choice)
14 On the up-andup
16 Match in
opinion
17 *Asian
American who became only the second woman to win the Oscar for Best Director
19 Shrek’s love
20 Listened to
21 Penthouse or
attic
23 Rear end, to
Brits
24 *Runway model famous for her work as a Victoria’s Secret Angel
26 Agcy. dealing with workplace accidents
28 Animals around
the house
29 Elvis’s wife
34 Jewish community center, for short 37 D.C. “Squad”
member
38 Fashionable … or where you might find the starts of the answers to the starred clues 41 Command between “ready” and “fire”
42 Like a basso’s
voice
44 Vegetables in traditional moussaka
46 Did a sketch
49 Disturb, as
sediment
50 *Longest resident performer at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace
54 Have ___ in
one’s belfry
58 Response to a
stimulus
59 Baked pudding of potatoes or noodles in Jewish cooking 60 Loosen, as laces 61 *Atlanta rapper featured on Lizzo’s Grammynominated “Exactly How I Feel”
64 Bishop’s hat
65 Stop and Yield 66 AOL, for one
67 Budweiser and
Beck’s
68 Altoids
containers
69 Tennis court
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1 Chocolateflavored coffee 2 HBO’S “Real Time With Bill ___”
3 Book of maps
4 Transport down
a winter hill 5 Dispenser
candy
6 “That tastes
bad!”
7 Cowboy’s rope
8 Perplex
9 Nimbleness
10 Bachelor party
attendee
11 Italian city where Columbus was born
12 Ache (for)
15 Saturday morning TV character
18 Dunkable
cookies
22 Vitality
24 Place for a
goatee
25 Split in two
27 Biol. or chem.
29 Increase unnecessarily, as an expense report
30 ___ v. Wade
31 Cold drink with
caffeine
32 Something to
throw on a fire
33 Belligerent, in
London
35 Runaway
success
36 Mornings,
informally
39 “Once ___ a
time”
40 Inventor
Whitney
43 More costly
45 Collection of
songs
47 Goes in
48 One of ancient China’s Three Kingdoms
50 Bit of bread
51 Start of a playground rhyme
52 Kennel
occupants
53 Arctic dweller 55 Once more
56 All wound up 57 Got some shuteye
59 Candy item
in foil
62 Some movie f/x 63 MSNBC
competitor