Crossword

ACROSS

1 Conversations 6 Flows back 10 “Doctor Who” channel

13 *Many an Iraqi Muslim

15 Congeal

16 __ de Janeiro 17 Great new talent

18 *From the 50th state

20 “Hold tight!” 22 Like at least six periodic table gases

23 *City buried by Vesuvius’ eruption

26 Vital organ pair 28 Smoothie superfruit 29 Partners’ legal entity: Abbr. 31 “Deck the Halls” contraction 32 Horses’ houses 34 Like Cheerios 36 Cigar remnants 39 Cunning 40 *Rolling to the

terminal 42 Meadow 43 Prof.’s aides 44 Dress named for a letter

45 Red giant in the night sky 47 Gobbled down 48 Oilers, on NHL

scoreboards 50 Drake or drone, e.g.

51 Sully, as a reputation 55 *Berra’s “No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded,” e.g. 57 Borders on 58 Frightened, in

Shakespeare 60 *Asian

mushroom 62 Prove false 66 Truck weight unit 67 “Bright” thought 68 “Yes, captain” ... and a phonetic hint to the answers to starred clues 69 Unit of work 70 Sell for

71 Snide

commentary

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1 1/6 fl. oz.

2 Spa user’s reaction

3 Golf ball position 4 Bigwig 5 Department __ 6 “HELLO ... (hello) ...,” e.g.

7 Shut out, in a game

8 Arrow shooter 9 Table showing teams’ won-lost records

10 Under-the-table money

11 Onion bagel alternative

12 Ice cream holders 14 Texting alternative 19 Charged particles 21 Mississippi port 23 Blue Ribbon beer 24 City about 65 miles west of Daytona Beach 25 Two of them precede “quite contrary” 27 Fla.-to-Cal. highway 30 Fictional mutiny ship

33 Sports page datum

35 Many a Woodstock T-shirt

36 Asia’s __ Mountains 37 Flippered mammals

38 Group of 37-Down

41 Bar pints

46 Wee bit 47 Against 49 Polynesian Disney princess

51 Ability to discern quality

52 Find repugnant 53 Regretting 54 Cod cousins 56 Overcast colors, in London

59 Tour de force 61 Brouhaha

63 Strong bond rating

64 Norse god of war 65 “A mouse!”