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1 Carnival Cruise Line headquar

ters 6 Net gain? 10 One often taking a bow 14 How many crosswords are

solved 15 Plot to plow 16 Creepy look 17 Bridge 20 Young Skywalker’s nickname 21 “At Wit’s End” columnist

Bombeck 22 Like Cheerios 23 Bridge 27 Liked a lot, with “up” 28 Taqueria order 31 A3 or Q7 34 Leave 37 Whistle-blower 38 Way around the block? 40 Luau band 41 Meatball medium 43 Roll in the yard 44 Inn crowd option 47 Cause of some closings 48 HBO drama set in Baltimore 50 __ Friday’s 52 Bridge 58 Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

prayer 60 Sci-fi navigator 61 Gen __ 62 Bridge 66 Number of times a horse can

enter the Kentucky Derby 67 “Dies __” 68 Copy, in a way 69 Essen’s region 70 Celebrate an anniversary, say,

with “out” 71 Secretly watch

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1 Hebrew prophet 2 Absurd 3 __ fool 4 Club __ 5 Take in 6 Harmful ray type 7 More than 70% of Earth’s sur

face 8 Lab greeting 9 “Ars gratia artis” is written in an

arc around his head 10 Zoom along 11 “Time for me to split” 12 Smoke passage 13 Gull relative 18 Carrying, so to speak 19 Hen holders 24 Common street name 25 Strait-laced 26 __ ejemplo 29 Geometric art style 30 Several 31 Start of a subordinate title:

Abbr. 32 “You meant 8 p.m. not a.m.?” 33 Vacation spot with horseback

riding 35 Toon often seen in a hunting hat 36 Shelled veggie 39 “Jeopardy!” staple 42 Flaws and all 45 Is for everyone? 46 Bikini in the Pacific, e.g. 49 It starts a bit before Christmas 51 Astronauts’ gear 53 Channel with a “Congressional

Chronicle” online archive 54 Kolkata cash