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  • 1 Some MIT grads, for short
  • 6 Disease with a one-track mind?
  • 10 Sprout-y pet?
  • 14 Andrea _____, ill-fated ship
  • 15 Part of fashion initials YSL
  • 16 Regretted
  • 17 Condescend to
  • 18 Actor Sethi who played Mowgli in 2016's The Jungle Book
  • 19 Lhasa pup
  • 20 Thoroughly
  • 23 Summer setting in Sarasota
  • 24 Frankfurter's "Fie!"
  • 25 Middle of a famous palindrome involving Napoleon
  • 29 Abbas' coalition, for short
  • 30 James, of The Godfather fame
  • 33 "Where you go ____", Ruth in the Old Testament
  • 34 "____ Mine", George Harrison book
  • 36 Fabricates fibs?
  • 39 "There is nothing so American" as these, said Franklin D. Roosevelt (and a hint to the shaded squares)
  • 41 Oceania country with capital Palikir
  • 42 Member of the 1969 "Miracle" team
  • 43 In the past
  • 44 Loch ____
  • 45 "I wonder..."
  • 47 Madoff's scheme
  • 49 "The Notorious ____" (not the former supreme court justice)
  • 50 Letters that further extend letters
  • 53 Southern California city known as "The Riviera"
  • 58 Capital of Switzerland
  • 61 Obama step-father Soetoro
  • 62 Keep an _____
  • 63 Draft status
  • 64 Concrete jungle
  • 65 Maternally related
  • 66 "Take ___", a refreshing summer activity
  • 67 Penn and others, abbr.
  • 68 Organ-ized giver?
  • 1 Murphy who said "The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice"
  • 2 Forever
  • 3 Grain to crush
  • 4 Mountain near Lucerne
  • 5 Fiji footwear
  • 6 Bird with a talent for "talking back"?
  • 7 Dutch ____, a heavy pot
  • 8 Have to have
  • 9 Home of Henrik Ibsen
  • 10 Dog's den, indoors
  • 11 Drill sound
  • 12 -y pluralizer
  • 13 Kerfuffle
  • 21 Transition region between biomes
  • 22 King's Peak range
  • 26 Czech poet Rainer Maria
  • 27 Purge
  • 28 Siri's home
  • 29 Czech version of the French "Pierre"
  • 30 Exquisite style
  • 31 "____ want for Christmas is my two front teeth"
  • 32 Influential woman in ancient Greece, known for her intellect
  • 34 Montoya of "The Princess Bride"
  • 35 Peach state city
  • 37 Hydrocarbon suffixes
  • 38 Host
  • 40 Ancient region known for its column style
  • 41 What Dora the Explorer keeps in her backpack
  • 46 Made a deal
  • 48 Sassy gesture
  • 49 Breakdancers
  • 50 Poem of praise
  • 51 Prefix with -type
  • 52 More reasonable
  • 54 Competition won by the L.A. Dodgers more than any team
  • 55 "There's nothing ____!"
  • 56 Opposite of baja
  • 57 "____ means!"
  • 58 Feathery accoutrement
  • 59 Split ____, haircare woe or football position
  • 60 Outdoorsy outfitter, for short