CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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1 TV drama whose title appeared on a California license plate 6 Beatrix Potter’s “The __ of Peter Rabbit” 10 “Right away!” letters 14 Yellow-and-white daisy 15 Goat with recurved horns 16 Circle dance 17 Gadget used on carrots 20 Inventor Whitney 21 No-win situation 22 Expression of woe 23 Seasonal sack toter 26 Whisperer’s target 27 Utter 28 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe 32 Slanted type 33 Bronze component 34 “Baseball Tonight” network 38 Swamp reptile 39 Lobbying gp. 40 __ New Guinea 41 Mets’ home through 2008 42 Roguish 43 Arcade machine inserts 44 Inhales 47 Key near Caps Lock 50 Spy org. 51 Time to chill, briefly 52 Dozing 54 CDXxV 55 Extinct New Zealand bird 58 Activity one might see at a circus ... or in the Across answers containing circles? 62 Sharp flavor 63 Rummikub piece 64 React to pain 65 Wraps up 66 Attacking the problem 67 Soft drink size

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1 Adore 2 Skater’s leap 3 Make laws 4 Shipboard affirmative 5 Like an unfun blanket? 6 Related to the shinbone 7 Up to the task 8 Calm side 9 Clarify 10 “If I may interject ...” 11 Shoe undersides 12 Sports venue 13 New Year’s Eve staple 18 High point of a home tour? 19 British nobleman 24 Bobbing on the waves 25 Gritty film genre 26 “Iliad” or “Aeneid” 28 Jobs for a band 29 The Beehive State 30 Corset stiffeners 31 Released without authorization 35 Gum flavor 36 Many a fourth-down play 37 Singer with Crosby and Stills 39 Courtroom entry 40 Lewd literature 42 Reaches without reading the intervening pages 43 Pre-Little League game 45 Scored 100 on 46 Sleeve band 47 Sense of style 48 Egypt’s __ High Dam 49 Fair-haired 53 Work units 54 The Niger River flows through it 56 “__ upon a midnight dreary ...” 57 Stress, so they say 59 Come out on top 60 Nocturnal hunter 61 Nintendo console