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1 Royal Catherine 5 All-day, in a way 9 Rides
13 Agave lookalike 14 Spring, for one 15 Fancy summer home
16 Grocery store worker on the days leading up to Thanksgiving? 19 Dress (up) 20 Cheesemaking town
21 Salty expanses 22 Incense residue 23 One who’s acting out? 24 Some trimmings 25 Pamphlets on how to use marinara? 31 Lecherous sort 33 Beginning of time?
34 When doubled, mouse-bopping bunny in a children’s song 35 Sporty Pontiac 38 One with a tattoo of a band’s name, say
41 Oxygen makes up only onefifth of this on the earth 42 Gossip, slangily 44 Part of some musical keys 45 Bookie?
50 Card game shout 51 Winners of a 1932 Australian “war”
52 Org. using millimeter wave scanners 55 Inedible jelly on a buffet table 58 49-Down’s city, familiarly 59 Shubert of Broadway’s Shubert
Theatre
60 Devices that help dentists monitor anesthesia? 63 En pointe
64 Its flag has “Allahu Akbar” written 22 times
65 Repeated words in an analogy 66 Common catch 67 Hunt and peck, say
68 Pronto DOWN 1 It gets into hot water
2 Chorus section 3 Inauspicious beginning 4 Certain whistleblower
5 Hardly basic 6 Personal friend in France 7 Something cephalopods control for camouflage 8 Units on a graduated cylinder: Abbr. 9 Fine point 10 ___-Seltzer 11 Campbell with the 1975 #1 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy”
12 2003 outbreak 15 Outspoken 17 Pelvis/patella connectors 18 Sticky ___ pudding
26 Author Rand
27 It’s set in a ring 28 Easy-peasy 29 Speckled
30 Maker of the first portable music player 31 Guess
32 Grammy winner India.___
36 When both hands are up 37 Unit of RAM 39 Passes, but not with flying colors
40 Shinzo ___, Japan’s longestserving prime minister 43 Representative’s work 46 Powerful engines
47 Feature of many a belly
48 Angsty hip-hop subgenre 49 Prestigious university in 58-Across 53 Company whose mascots are sheep with numbers painted on them
54 Author whose titles often feature two animals
55 One with an upturned nose, so to speak 56 Common catch 57 CPR specialists 61 “Scram!”
62 Car once advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise”