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1 Neighboring 11 Far from
self-effacing 15 Water-park? 16 Rose in a field 17 Singing pair 18 Old Broadway
production grp. 19 Classes 20 Fresno-to-L.A.
direction 21 Albuquerque’s __
_ Racing Museum 22 Luis who directed
“Anaconda,” 1997 24 Big shot on
Al Jazeera 27 Passé PC piece 28 Botched 31 Oxford offering 32 Thing to charge
with 36 Ghost’s sound 37 Crown polisher 39 Many hand-helds,
for short 40 Sleeper’s option
in a sleeper 41 Flee 42 Norepinephrine
producer 43 Full Sail or Fuller’s 44 Put on 45 Recipient of much
praise 50 TALKS LIKE THIS! 52 They may sit next
to castles: Abbr. 55 Aarnio of
furniture 56 Oilman ___
P. Halliburton 57 Examination by those most qualified 60 GPS offerings:
Abbr. 61 Old Glory saluter,
most likely 62 They broke up in
1991: Abbr. 63 They’re abandoned in charm school Down 1 Big name in
relief 2 Like wags 3 Informal name for
a monkey 4 Take ___
(decline) 5 Presidential
nickname 6 Accompaniers of
cover letters: Abbr. 7 Basic training figs. 8 Common thing to plan a vacation around 9 Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Mr. ___” 10 Sterile environments, for short 11 Decade or century 12 It’s likely to have
bass parts 13 Farthest 14 One engaging in
clockwork 21 Script postscript? 23 “What ___ mind
reader?” 25 “Guten ___” 26 One of the
Gandhis 29 “That works” 30 Journalist who wrote “Come to Think of It,” 2007 32 Contents of some
music cabinets 33 Indicators of impending danger 34 Brit working with
nails, say 35 Drying-out
danger 36 It was retired by the Yankees in 1986 38 Powerful Syrian city in the third millennium B.C. 42 Sympathetic
responses 46 1972 Elton John
hit 47 Hanover’s river 48 In the back 49 Hurricane
noises 51 Off, pricewise 53 It follows a mine
line 54 Miss Spain, say:
Abbr. 57 43-Across
server 58 That Peruvian? 59 German
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