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EDITED Fred Piscop BY Martin Ashwood-Smith

GIVE IT A WHIRL

ACROSS 1 Tijuana’s peninsula, informally 5 Box office disaster 9 Roughs up 14 Agenda detail 15 Like much tribal lore 16 Blacksmith’s wear 17 Meeting point 18 Right-angle ratio 19 Symbol of slowness 20 Go nowhere fast 23 Knotty wood 24 Piece of the past 25 Drumbeat sound 29 “CSI” evidence 30 Sound from the sloshed 33 Genesis victim 34 “Wheat” coin until 1958 35 Blast furnace input 36 Laugh really hard 41 Mother of 33-Across 42 Highest sudoku digit, typically 43 Sch. with a goat mascot 44 “Oedipus ___” 45 NCO with chevrons 46 Symbol of sovereignt­y 49 Cry to Cratchit 50 “Gigi” playwright Anita 51 Issue a veto 58 Neighbor of Maui 59 Jordanian, typically 60 Instrument called an “ill wind” 61 Live and breathe 62 Place for cash 63 Trevi Fountain coin, once 64 In la-la land 65 Sedgwick in Warhol shorts 66 Roue’s look DOWN 1 Recyclable­s holders 2 At the summit of 3 “Star Wars” elite 4 Sermon signoff 5 Neighbor of Croatia 6 Show the ropes to 7 Minister’s residence 8 Squandered, as a lead 9 Ferrari competitor 10 Sleeper’s woe 11 River through Kazakhstan 12 “Family Guy” mother 13 The Blues Brothers’ show, briefly 21 Make a selection, with “for” 22 Redhead’s dye 25 Closer to extinction, perhaps 26 Higher in rank than 27 Fax forerunner 28 The whole schmear 29 Sandra of “Gidget” 30 “The Planets” composer Gustav 31 Adler of Holmes stories 32 “Dog whisperer” Millan 34 2008 Del Toro movie 37 Reason to plead not guilty 38 From dusk to dawn 39 Explosive letters 40 Have a late meal 46 Mogadishu native 47 Repair, as shoes 48 Double curve 49 Tubas and trombones 50 Shocking, in a graphic way 51 Prepare for takeoff 52 ICU part 53 Can’t stomach 54 Mattel’s Ken, e.g. 55 Award for playwritin­g 56 Was decked out in 57 In the ballpark 58 Was a trailblaze­r

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