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ACROSS

1. Cry from a Fortnite player 6. Not needing a scrip 9. Side salads 14. Smooth and sophisticated 15. Grumpy outburst 16. Wordworking tool that creates symmetrical cuts 17. Painting of someone’s digitally made pickup line? 19. Microscope lens 20. Arson investigating org. 21. Champagne brand with an umlaut in its name 22. Help out 23. Printer’s color 25. Fabric pattern that you shouldn’t wear at the office? 27. Tao, literally 29. Loaded with beef fat 30. Georgetown is part of it 33. Corp. takeover 34. Egg in 4-Down 38. Comedian without a clue? 40. “AFK, dog”? 42. Kits for survivalists 43. Cream on the table? 45. Edible garlic stems 46. ___ Downs (English racetrack) 48. An NCO 49. Really funny album cover? 54. Its quarter says “Foundation in Education” 57. Brought home 58. NYC mayor Adams 60. Line in an address 61. “Julius Caesar” out t 62. Two awe-inspiring French handles? 64. Put in place, as laws 65. Melancholy 66. ___ Graecia (ancient Greek seaport colonies) 67. Sidewalk paths after shoveling out a blizzard, say 68. Conclusion 69. Mournful poem

DOWN

1. Israel’s president Herzog 2. Needing to be aired out 3. Still sleepy, say 4. See 34-Across 5. Social studies word 6. Become xated 7. Full of grace 8. Stand-up conic Margaret 9. Excessively sentimental 10. Temporary brain fart 11. What the top unit in a three family triplex likely once was 12. Stir together in the kitchen 13. Religious groups 18. Humongous timespan 22. Stage crew? 24. Drug busters 26. James ___ Space Telescope 28. Approving word 30. Kind of dark 31. Mixtape your dad might have given your mom, maybe 32. Scribbler’s tablet 34. Giraffe’s cousin 35. Space behind the velvet rope at a club 36. “___ Semaine de Bonté” (Max Ernst novel) 37. Booker T. & the ___ 39. What the middle letter in 31-Down stands for 41. Include without anyone else knowing 44. Game played with gym buddies? 46. Kicks out 47. Formed a superteam 49. “They can do what they wanna” 50. ___ Kea 51. Bardem’s “Being the Ricardos” role 52. Ready to serve, as champagne 53. Cookie container 55. Lkie evrey wrod ni thsi cleu 56. Cosmetic brand 59. Invitation word 62. Be shy? 63. Evans in “The Beatles: Get Back”

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