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1 Talk big

5 “The Lego Ninjago Movie” actress Jacobson 9 Secret stash 14 Prefix for “correct” 15 Close by 16 Bangladeshi or Bhutanese 17 Workplace message

18 “And, I might add . . .”

19 Stiff

20 Meteor shower sights 23 Sunrise sight 26 Corporate $$$ exec

27 Like dry wit

28 ___ de parfum 29 Beast from the Equidae family 31 Not doing much 33 Stat on a terminal screen

34 Short- sleeved shirts 36 Bothers big- time 39 Untrue assertions 44 Romanov ruler 45 Black Panther Hampton 46 Common flooring wood

47 Rice- shaped pasta 49 “With all ___ respect . . .” 51 Tech for “Avatar” 52 Kash Doll genre 54 Rock in a mine 56 Prepared dinner, perhaps

58 Spot to grab a Middle Eastern sandwich 61 Quarrel

62 “What ___ with you?”

63 “My bad!” 67 Closes tightly 68 Cost of a cab ride 69 Move with urgency

70 Black- and- white snacks 71 Centers of hurricanes 72 Hotel visit

DOWN

1 “POW!” relative

2 Sorely regret

3 Machine that might charge you to get your money 4 Makes a mistake 5 Investment firm workers

6 ___ peppers 7 Fundamental 8 Tyrannical 9 Mechanics work on them

10 So to speak

11 “Close, but no ___” 12 Like a precarious situation 13 Uneaten parts of loaves, sometimes 21 Alias lead- in 22 Shiva or Vishnu 23 Coral formation 24 Bother continually

25 Two- team wrestling meets 30 On easy street 32 3.1 Phillip ___ ( fashion label) 35 Place for an industrial piercing 37 Word repeated before “Who’s there?” 38 Keynote speaker’s place 40 Biggest city in South America 41 Play a wrong note, say 42 Shows the ropes

43 Slide on the road

48 “Big Little Lies” actress Kravitz 50 Very long stretch of time

52 Less prevalent 53 Birdbath scum 55 Type of nonfiction writing 57 Dumpster features 58 Burkina ___

59 ___ up ( come clean) 60 Michelin or Pirelli product 64 Openly bi, say 65 Noncommercial advertisement, for short 66 Unlikely to say hi first, say

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