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1 Bud

4 Tow truck destination

10 Puts a lid on

14 ___ carte menu 15 Widely recognized, as a symbol 16 Butter alternative 17 “Truthfully …” 20 The “L” of L.P.G.A. 21 ___ biloba (ornamental tree with a widely used extract)

22 Trains at a high level?

23 Hot dog

25 Irish laddie

27 1953 title role for John Wayne 28 Captain in a whale of a tale?

32 Mimic

33 Comedian Sahl 34 Grammatical case in Latin

36 Secure a seat at the table, say

39 Emily who wrote “Wuthering Heights”

40 Univ. of Maryland athlete

41 ___ stop (chance to refuel)

42 Golfers don’t want to go into it 43 Prepare to break a peace treaty, perhaps 45 Mr. in a Robert Louis Stevenson story 46 Emulate Mr. Clean, in a way

48 Mars or Jupiter 49 Butt-head’s sidekick

51 More ghostly 54 “Hurry up!”

57 Leaf (through) 58 Home to Slovenia and Slovakia 59 Royal irritant in a fairy tale

60 Makes into a knot 61 Brings into being 62 Hankering

DOWN

1 Item on a bucket list?

2 ___ Romeo (Italian auto)

3 Got a look at 4 Cutting remarks 5 High or low cards 6 Louis XIV, par exemple

7 ___ Taylor (clothier) 8 Played a couple of sets at a jazz club, say

9 Starfish or sea urchin, in a biology text

10 “Major props to you!”

11 Fashion model Wek 12 100 centavos 13 Barfly

18 Venus de ___

19 1

23 Had on

24 Counting everything

25 Cutting remarks 26 John Adams’s “Nixon in China,” for one

27 Futuristic modes of

transport 29 New-agey, slangily 30 Dodge

31 “___ Davis Eyes” (Kim Carnes hit of 1981)

33 “The A-team” actor

with a mohawk 35 African serpent 37 Chess match

finales

38 Brainy oddball 44 Slacken

45 Group wedding

dance

47 Laboratory eggs 48 Cute reply to “Why

are you so cute?” 49 ___ B’rith (Jewish

organization)

50 Leg up

51 TV network that organizes the X Games

52 Fencing option 53 TV host Seacrest 54 Missing letters in “??propria?e” (felicitously) 55 Savings plan with SEP and SIMPLE versions

56 Pull along