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1 Honolulu’s island
5 Promotional
paragraph
10 Stick in a test kit
14 Turn with a
spatula
15 Not as common
16 Flag holder
17 Government
agents
18 Sound
transmission
19 Golfer’s target
20 Not happy
23 Snake- haired figure
in Greek myth
24 Counterparts of
flats, in music
26 Name that means
“born again”
27 Is looking for
29 Apple pie ___
mode
30 “. . . but I ___”
36 Intelligence org. in the Susan Williams book “White Malice”
37 “Great, one more thing to be terrified about”
40 Greenish- blue hue 41 Visibly unsafe for
eating
42 “Take this one”
43 ___ Kippur
45 Name that becomes a direction if you add a T
46 Part of PPV or mpg 47 Unfairly deprive 49 Skillet, for
example
50 Groups of
organized workers 55 Hard precipitation 57 Ab exercise
58 Unwanted trail in
a kitchen
61 Past partners
62 Shovel relative
63 Des Moines’ state 64 “Definitely!”
65 What a phoenix
rises from
66 “My mind is blown!”
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1 Not right
2 Ginger ___
3 Not stored in an
easy- to- find place 4 “___ Down” ( Diana
Ross hit)
5 Talks a big game 6 Actress Linney
7 Language in
Pakistan
8 Take the ___
( assume control)
9 Liquid ingredient
in soups
10 Perfectly round
object
11 Loud bird
12 100%
13 Nectar collector 21 Soft leather
22 Rodeo rope
23 Chaotic fight
25 Winter Olympics
athlete
26 ___ and rave
28 “Smooth
Operator” singer 31 Translation of
“yo soy”
32 Get larger
33 “No shoes in the house,” for example
34 Comes to a
close
35 Mischievous
38 “___? For spring? Groundbreaking” ( sarcastic line in “The Devil Wears Prada”) 39 Capital of Tamil Nadu, India
44 Chaotic crowd
46 Kung ___
chicken
48 ___ nova ( Brazilian music style)
49 Plumbing
tubes
50 Falsehoods
51 Tears into
shreds
52 Salt Lake City’s
state
2/ 16 53 Shade of lipstick or
heels
54 Fluffy precipitation 55 “Howdy!”
56 Tool for splitting
wood
59 Number that sometimes follows LGBTQIA
60 Tool for cutting
wood