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1 Many Pindar poems 5 Philatelist’s find 10 Mt. Rushmore locale 14 “Rich & Meaty” brand 15 “I should have made my way straight __ long ago”: Whitman 16 “Try this” 17 Joule fractions 18 Explosive trial 19 “Makes sense to me” 20 Old Buick 22 Not surprising 24 Schoolyard comeback 25 Chaps can be seen in one 26 Like boxed matches 28 Jackson successor Van __ 29 Predatory seabird 31 “Hit me” 33 Speckle 36 Broadway’s __Fontanne

Theatre 38 Grind, as teeth 39 Young hombre 40 Shout before Silver 41 Patterson who played the singing flight attendant in “Airplane!” 42 Handling the situation 43 Pancreatic hormone 45 Blue hues 47 Chase scene sounds 48 Annexes 49 One of a fiver’s fifty 50 Recipe word 51 Flock females 53 Freedom, in Swahili 57 “The Country Girls” novelist

O’Brien 60 Big oaf 61 Surgical holding area 62 Go slowly (through) 63 Hardtodo dos 64 Part of REM 65 See 51Down

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Moscow 2 “__ say it?” 3 Diner’s breakfast request 4 “Valley of the Dolls” author

Jacqueline 5 Baseball manager’s decision 6 Carry 7 Word to a captain 8 Greatest amount 9 Cop’s command 10 Many an Iraqi Muslim 11 What sports stats are usually shown in ... or what 3, 5 and 9Down each represents? 12 Toward the stern 13 Boat base 21 Barn dance neckwear 23 Remove the skin from 27 Mortise inserts 28 Sarajevo’s region 29 K12 30 Roman holiday attractions 32 Dent or scratch 34 Pizza topping 35 Wee ones 37 Busload at a resort, probably 39 Loud to the max 44 Moon lander, briefly 46 Prohibited insecticide 51 With 65Across, source of