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1 Vaping device, informally

5 ___ Roy, patriarch on HBO’s “Succession”

10 Successfully solicit, with “up”

14 Arizona city near the California border

15 Where Dalmatia is

16 NPR’s ___ Totenberg

17 Stand-in for the unnamed

18 Monopoly cards

19 Buffalo Bill’s surname

20 Walked

22 End

24 It has a cedar tree on its flag: Abbr.

25 World’s highest-paid actor in 2021, familiarly

27 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner

29 Brand of taco kits and sauces

30 Mobile homes of a sort

32 Castle defenses

33 Bargain bin abbr.

35 NYC nabe near NYU

36 Life preserver? ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle

39 ___ Romeo

42 Starting lineup

43 Dispirit, with “out”

46 Heraldic symbol 49 Noted Venetian bridge

51 Separate seed from

52 Be perfectly sized

53 The “e” of “i.e.”

54 Home to the golden pavilion known as Kinkaku-ji

57 Planted

58 ___ Jones, former

Alabama senator

60 Best ever, in sports slang

62 Org. known for counting backward

64 “Yeah ... I don’t think so”

65 Fresh blood 66 Mobile home?

67 Actress Amanda

68 Works hard, old-style

69 Some creatures in the ocean’s “midnight zone”

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1 ___ of Ra, symbolic depiction in Egyptian art

2 Dog-eat-dog

3 Turkish inns

4 In large numbers

5 Flat-screen option, for short

6 Rival of Hoover

7 Facial feature named for an animal

8 Operatic daughter of the king Amonasro

9 World capital on the island of New Providence

10 Blues org.?

11 1970 John Wayne film

12 Sworn

13 “It’s possible”

21 Prairie stray

23 Chicago conveyances

25 Waits on an album release?

26 Late media columnist David

28 Cohort before millennials, for short

30 Begins to get exciting, with “up”

31 It’s not a good look

34 Chew (out)

36 Spot of espresso?

37 Italian home to the Basilica of

St. Nicholas

38 Excludes

39 Misbehaved

40 Repulsive

41 Magazine with an annual Investor’s Guide

43 Extraneous computer programs that slow down a system

44 Part of a place setting

45 Rapper Kool ___ Dee

47 Pose

48 Beat

50 Immediately

52 Economics Nobelist Robert

55 Where I-70 meets I-71

56 Polo on TV 59 Snookered

61 National Book Award winner for “Them,” 1970

63 They’re used in a crunch

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