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1 A wing for a prayer 5 Club gig with prerecorded tracks, informally 10 Wambach with a 2016 ESPY Icon Award 14 Pioneering synthesizer 15 Tirades
16 Give a hoot 17 Breathing aid demonstrated by a flight attendant 19 Chowder morsel 20 Camouflage 21 Irritate
22 Pool swindler 25 Protective drape for an X-ray 28 Mother ___ 30 Tenant’s payment 31 Jazz’s Fitzgerald 32 Playfully bites 35 Dit’s counterpart in Morse code 38 Principles for good prose in a classic writing guide by Strunk & White … or a hint to the wardrobe assembled at 17-, 25-, 47- and 57-Across 41 Coiffures, informally 42 Wolflike
43 Tumbling spot for Jack and Jill 44 First, second, third or reverse 45 Hip-hop dance move of the 2010s 47 Major-league award for fielding prowess 52 Delivery person, for short 53 Decorative woodwork technique
54 Cut from the same cloth
56 ___ all-time high 57 Headgear designed to block psychic intrusions 62 Tasty treats, in memespeak 63 Take responsibility for something 64 A red-and-white target, for Target 65 Weather-resistant wood 66 Polynesian Disney heroine
67 Eject with force
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1 ___, amas, amat … 2 Pestilence 3 Base for tofu and tempeh
4 Soda fountain treat that contains neither of the ingredients in its name
5 Title Bond villain 6 Actor Malcolm-___ Warner 7 Plumber’s drainclearing device 8 Flying saucer crew, for short 9 Cluck of disapproval 10 Tolerate 11 Hay-collecting machine 12 Congratulatorysounding letter in the NATO alphabet 13 Neighbor of Oman 18 Fraternal order 21 Culottes or corduroys 22 Knight’s mount
23 “Greetings!” 24 French setting for a van Gogh
26 Bad match on tinder? 27 Overwhelm with noise
29 Like most holidays and physicals 33 Specialist in PC problem-solving 34 Omega preceder 35 Going out, as embers
36 Ease, as worries 37 Actress Mirren 39 Mournful verse 40 Poe poem with the line “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle”
44 Polish city by the sea
46 Isao of golf 47 Colossal
48 How a ballerina pirouettes 49 Camelid sometimes used to guard sheep
50 Game show co-host who could be called a “woman of letters,” familiarly 51 Small and pixieish 55 Speck
57 When repeated, a kind of drum 58 ___ Jima
59 Use a pogo stick
60 Ripen nicely, as wine
61 Haul
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