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1 & 5 Warm-up circuits for race car drivers
9 Shoppers’ stops
14 Youngest M.L.B. player to hit 500 homers
15 Sports sword
16 Established
17 Negative fast-food review?
19 Scooter ___, former White House adviser convicted in the Plame affair
20 Where shots might be served (or fired) in a western
21 One of 14 in “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”
23 Madison Avenue award
25 Arles affirmative
26 Droopy feature of a cocker spaniel
27 Negative fast-food review?
32 Home of Mount Carmel: Abbr.
33 “Despicable Me” supervillain
34 Julie ___, voicer of Marge Simpson
37 Ending with cyto-or proto
40 Make a boo-boo
42 Emotionally demanding
43 Do after dark
45 Nickname for Maurice
47 Inc., in France
48 Negative fast-food review?
52 Charge (through)
54 Early hrs.
55 “Get outta here!”
56 Cirque du Soleil stars, e.g.
59 Archipelago that’s a part of Portugal
63 Guarded
64 Certain fast-food offering … or what 17-, 27and
47-Across certainly don’t add up to?
66 Musical direction for silence
67 “Anyone ___?”
68 Keen on
69 Spot for a sprain
70 Inbox label counterpart of “New”
71 Number written in parentheses on an income statement
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1 Print sources, maybe
2 Surveyor’s calculation
3 Rock around the Christmas tree?
4 N.Y.C. mayor of the 1970s-’80s
5 Like Pisa’s tower
6 “The Simpsons” storekeeper
7 Chest muscles, informally
8 “Later!”
9 Do-over
10 Polo grounds?
11 Gawk
12 Drum used in Indian music
13 More Machiavellian
18 Divas’ deliveries
22 Browse online without commenting, informally
24 Folklore fiend
27 Cheese ___ (snack)
28 City called a “kommune” by its inhabitants
29 Complete disaster
30 Myanmar, formerly
31 The “E” of N.Y.E.
35 Falco with four Emmys
36 Choices at bakeries and liquor stores
38 Theater sign letters
39 Storage unit
41 Doesn’t keep
44 Singer Franklin, Aretha’s older sister
46 Got out
49 Purim heroine
50 Indistinct
51 Kind of number in chemistry
52 Country from which the name “Buttigieg” comes
53 Vast expanse
57 1988 Cy Young winner Hershiser
58 Attention-getting store sign
60 Western home of the National Automobile Museum
61 Grub
62 Opening for a time … or a dime
65 Free ad, for short
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