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ACROSS

1 Striped pet

6 “__ chic!”

10 Gear tooth 13 Sprightly

14 Bridge

predecessor 15 Back on a ship 16 *Research without

direct application 18 Spending power,

for short

19 “No Ordinary

Love” singer 20 Eleven digits? 21 Treadmill setting 23 *Czechoslovakian

movement of 1968 27 Yuletide song 28 33-Across years 29 Paper or plastic 30 Father of the

Muses

33 Score half 34 *Helpline offering 38 “I see,” at sea 39 Noodle nugget 40 “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s

__”: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema 41 Policy of some

restaurants

44 “An Caighdeán

Oifigiúil” language 45 *Commerce

imbalance 49 Recycle bin, e.g. 50 Shades 51 Becomes

compost 55 “Gross!”

56 *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? 59 Baseball great

Ripken

60 Comes up against 61 Isaac of “Moon

Knight”

62 U-turn from WSW 63 Response heard during a pool game

64 Pier

DOWN

1 Spigots

2 Río flower

3 __ of paradise 4 Cover up, in a

way

5 [Nod] 6 Org. with 27

member states 7 Salon procedure 8 Key to going

back?

9 Grassy expanse 10 Word on an Italian menu that means “hunter” 11 Those at fault 12 Classic Pontiac

muscle car 14 Annex 17 Anthracite or

lignite

22 __ de Triomphe 24 Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man 25 The Aztecs of the NCAA’S Mountain West Conf. 26 Bloke

27 Center of a 3-4

football defense 29 Spanish dialect in

the Big Apple 30 Character debuted by Zadie Smith?

31 Poetic preposition 32 Can. neighbor 34 “You __ be

serious”

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36 Home of many 47 Cost Quechua 48 Identifies (as) speakers 52 Largest member 37 Means to an end? of the dolphin 42 Final words of an family

engagement 53 Leader in the 43 Top removed Bulgarian Empire before dashing 54 Feudal laborer off? 55 Diamonds, in 44 Conditional slang programming 57 “Last Week word Tonight” network 46 Mover’s rental 58 “Bam!” kin