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1 Podcasters’ needs 5 Meaty pasta sauce 9 “Hey, by the way …” 14 Apple with multiple cores Eurasian river Abstain from *Job for a coxswain with rowdy rowers? 20 What’s tolerated by

every body? 21 Natural hairstyles 22 Poorly

23 *Review for a so-so bakery?

2007 Michael Moore documentary about health care “You’ve got ___ nerve!” Melody

It’s often in stock Chose a course Dorothy Parker quality *Person who assigns the order of opening presents? 40 “Yes,” in Japanese 41 Check box of last resort

Norse protector of humankind Complain querulously 45 Kyrgyzstan

mountain range 47 Extremist sects 49 *Completes a superhero transformation? 15 16 17 29 30 34 37

And others too numerous to mention

Nary a soul Island nation whose currency is the tala 60 Preschool teacher’s mantra … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues 63 Have a nibble of 64 Brazilian berry 65 She, on the Seine 66 Expression that might accompany a mustache twirl Word repeated in a 1956 Doris Day single

68 Brighter times 55 56

It’s catching “Not sure yet” Something to make or break “Magic that works,” per Vonnegut Runner on the ground?

6 Like an excited crowd

7 Social blunder 8 Marine leader? 9 Small ice cream order

Ad ___

“Never mind what I just said!”

One of the Astaires Caterwauls Cozy corner

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Romantic attraction, slangily, with “the”

Its name means “waterless place” in Mongolian Hype (up) Something to follow, in cards

“If so, then …” Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802) Poetic frequency Utmost Writer Umberto Buds go in them Dance floor flourish Less sharp, as footage Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal

42 They’re raised in Chi-town Found innocent Part of, as a plot “___-daisy!” Tales of daring Frome of fiction Classical cover-ups Chilling

Labor activist Chavez

“___ 18” (novel by Leon Uris) Exclusively Wrinkles in time? Its ways are numbered: Abbr. O.S.S. successor 19 24

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