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MANY LOCAL RACES STILL TOO EARLY TO CALL IN 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

tenant Governor since 2019. His campaign fo- triano (R) with 53.7% of precincts reporting. cused on bringing back American manufactur- Shapiro has 30% of the vote compared to MasMillions of people, including hundreds of ing, cutting taxes for working families, banning triano’s 22.7%. students, voted Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 2022 midterm elections, which are some of the most closely watched and expensive in the country.

Voters will decide the U.S. senator, the state’s governor and other federal representatives.

Pennsylvania’s midterms are also vital because they may determine which political party takes control of the U.S. Senate.

Here are the election results, as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press. Many races are too early to call by the time of publication Tuesday night.

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Races that are decided: Pennsylvania House of Representatives – District 23: Dan Frankel (D, Incumbent) Frankel easily won the state house seat with 64% of the vote. His opponent, Jay-Ting Walker (G) got 8.4% of the vote.

Frankel is an advocate for civil rights and public health and currently serves as the Democratic chairman of the House Health Committee where he promotes science-based policies to members of Congress from trading and holding protect and improve the public health of Penn- stocks, protecting abortion access as well as cutsylvanians. ting healthcare costs.

Oz hosted the television program “The Dr. Races that are yet to be called: Oz Show” from 2009 until 2022. His campaign focused on energy independence, lowering the U.S Senate cost of prescription drugs, “protecting innocent John Fetterman (D) currently leads Mehmet life” regarding abortion access, increasing secuOz (R) with 54% of precincts reporting. Fetter- rity at the U.S. border, opposing anti-gun laws man has 27.4% of the vote compared to Oz’s and fighting inflation.

25.2%.

Fetterman served as the mayor of Braddock Governor from 2006 until 2019 and has served as LieuJosh Shapiro (D) currently leads Doug Mas-

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Shapiro currently serves as Attorney General and formerly served as a democratic Pennsylvania state legislator and Chairman of the Board of Commissioners in Montgomery County.

Shapiro’s campaign focused on protecting reproductive rights, creating jobs by investing in infrastructure and clean energy, expanding vocational training, reducing taxes, data-driven criminal justice reform and expanding the Pennsylvania rent rebate program to relieve the pressure of property tax on senior citizens.

Mastriano (R) currently serves as a U.S. senator for Pennsylvania’s 33rd district and is a vet-

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eran. His campaign focused on putting an end to COVID-19 vaccination requirements and restrictions, signing the “heartbeat bill” into law, banning the use of public benefits for illegal immigrants as well as banning public schools from teaching critical race theory and election fraud.

U.S. House of Representatives — Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District Summer Lee (D) comfortably leads Mike Doyle (R) with 73.8% of precincts reporting.

Lee has 43.4% of the vote compared to Doyle’s 30.4%.

Lee currently serves as a Democratic legislator in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for District 34. She supports funding the replacement of all lead water lines in America, ending fracking, transitioning American society to 100% clean and renewable energy sources, protecting reproductive rights, eliminating cash bail and abolishing the death penalty.

Doyle is a Plum Borough councilman and the vice president of Excalibur Insurance. He shares the same name as Congressman Mike Doyle (D) who currently holds the House seat.

Doyle supports energy independence, cutting federal spending and increased border security.

His campaign also focuses on education reform and supporting the military and police.

Home Rule Charter Amendment The charter amendment secured a lead for approval, roughly 59% to 41%, with 83% of precincts reporting. This amendment would allow members of county council to run for other elected positions within local, state and federal government without having to first resign from county council.

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PITT STUDENTS HEAD TO THE POLLS WITH PROTECTING ABORTION ACCESS, LIMITING FRACKING ON THEIR MINDS

Donata Massimiani Senior Staff Writer

Across Pitt’s campus, hundreds of students flocked to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in Pennsylvania’s heavily watched midterm elections. Many students reported voting for all democratic candidates, saying protecting abortion access and promoting clean energy were their deciding factors.

At about 9:30 a.m., Katie Gallo, a sophomore business major, voted at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. She voted blue all down the ballot because she wanted to protect abortion rights, especially in the close Senate race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz. Fetterman has vowed to protect abortion in Pennsylvania, while Oz has said he wants to “[protect] innocent life.”

“I think, with what I’ve been hearing about Dr. Oz, a lot of the freedoms I have in my life will be taken away,” Gallo said. “I take those for granted a little bit, but not in this election.”

Gallo said she preferred the Democratic candidates’ stances on climate change and clean energy to their Republican counterparts, which factored into her decision.

“Climate change and clean energy are two things I care a lot about as well,” Gallo said.

Students also chose between Democrat Josh Shapiro and Republican Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, between Summer Lee and Mike Doyle for the District 12 U.S. House seat and between Dan Frankel and Jay-Ting Walker for District 23 in the state house. The Home Rule Charter Amendment was also on the ballot, which, if passed, would allow members of county council to run for other elected positions within local, state and federal government without having to first resign from county council.

Early in the morning at Soldiers & Sailors, there were essentially no lines when Chloe Scharf, a sophomore psychology and law, criminal justice and society double major, went to vote. She said she voted for all Demo-

crats because she feels more confident in their abilities to fight for women’s rights, lower the cost of college, protect voting rights and make health care more affordable.

“I know that [the Democratic candidates] will try to do what they can for all of the people they represent,” Scharf said.

At the William Pitt Union, students separated into two lines based on last name — A - L on the left and M - Z on the right — and waited outside of the brown double doors of the assembly room to cast their vote. Students also voted at Posvar Hall, Bellefield Hall and more.

Niobe Tsoutsouris, a sophomore law, criminal justice and society major, said she voted for Fetterman because she believes in many of his policies, such as funding for public education, protecting reproductive rights and gun reform. She voted at the WPU at around 8:30 a.m.

“I think there should be stricter laws for

who can purchase a gun,” Tsoutsouris said.

Andrew Vanacore, a senior biological sciences major, also said he voted for Shapiro and Fetterman because he shares similar views and values with the two.

“Some of the important issues for this election were a woman's right to make decisions over her own body and supporting LGBTQ rights,” Vanacore said.

Sophia Traczek, a first-year psychology and law, criminal justice and society major, said she thinks it’s important for people to get out and vote because voting is one of the founding principles of America and its democracy. She also voted for Shapiro and Fetterman at the WPU due to their stance on abortion.

“That is the single biggest way for your voice to be heard and for you to potentially make an impact,” Traczek said. “I know it seems kind of small, you're just one person, but every single vote does count at the end of the day.”

People wait in line to vote in the William Pitt Union assembly room.

Ethan Shulman | Staff Photographer Portraits on page 2, left to right: Niobe Tsoutsouris, a sophomore law, criminal justice and society major in the William Pitt Union.

Katie Gallo, a sophomore business major, at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum.

Andrew Vanacore, a senior biological sciences major at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum.

Chloe Scharf, a sophomore psychology and law, criminal justice and society double major at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum.

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When two Pitt students, Ryan Walchonski and Sebastian Kinsler, started to make noise pop music in 2021, it was just a "fun project."

After the duo added two more members to the group, they solidified themselves as the band feeble little horse. They now play shows for hundreds of people on tour and have recently signed to the record label Saddle Creek. Students may recognize their merch worn around campus or moved in the mosh pit during their recent performance at The Deli.

When the band started as a duo, Walchonski and Kinsler covered guitar, vocals and production. It took time for the group to become the noise pop band they are now because their sound missed a drummer and a lead vocalist.

Walchonski, a 2021 Pitt alumni, was Jake Kelley’s resident assistant at Nordenberg Hall. Together, they attended house shows in the Pittsburgh area.

Through their mutual love of music, Kelley, a senior economics and history double major, eventually joined the band as a drummer.

Lydia Slocum, lead vocalist, is not a Pitt student, but she grew up in Pittsburgh. She became involved in feeble little horse after a grade school friend introduced her to Kinsler.

According to Walchonski, the band continued to

make music for fun after officially solidifying itself as feeble little horse in 2021. As the band gained popularity in the Pittsburgh area, Walchonski said it was “exciting to have something we could be proud of.”

“I think Ryan and I just always tried to make sounds that sounded like what we listen to, and Jake and Lydia fit well into that vision,” Kinsler, a junior chemistry major, said.

On Oct. 15, feeble little horse performed at The Deli on Bates Street. The band came back to “where it all started” to play for their fanbase, which attracted a crowd of more than 200 people. It was feeble’s first DIY house show in more than a year, and members of The Deli prepared to have the show outdoors for a larger turnout. However, they were surprised when people outside of Pittsburgh came to the show.

Elizabeth Sidelnikov, a senior industrial engineering major, lives in and manages The Deli with her roommate, Gwen Valvona, a senior studio art major. Sidelnikov said although she expected a large number of locals, she noticed a “completely different crowd” the night of the feeble little horse show.

“I was seeing people that I've never seen come to the show,” Sidelnikov said. “People went out of their way to go to a house show venue.”

Alex Gosek, a senior environmental science major who helps manage The Deli, said one attendee mentioned they traveled out of state to see the band

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perform. This is a rare occurrence for a house venue like The Deli because local Pitt students make up almost all the attendees.

“Some girl was like ‘Yeah, I came from Ohio.’”

Gosek said. “It shows that people will commute to Pittsburgh to see them, which happens so rarely.”

Valvona was not surprised that fans of the band traveled out of state to attend a show. She said feeble little horse made an exception to play a show at a venue like The Deli because “they’ve definitely moved past that.”

Valona’s statement is true — earlier this year, feeble little horse played in Brooklyn at The Living Gallery with the band Hotline TNT. According to Walchonski, their music was an inspiration to him and Kinsler when the duo started making their own sound.

Someone from the record label Saddle Creek attended The Living Gallery show and reached out to the band after their performance. Walchonski said the band did not plan on signing to a label, but it “just felt right” because Saddle Creek gives the band the ability to set their own expectations.

“We always wanted to do things on our own terms and thought that a label would limit that,” Walchonski said. “But Saddle Creek has, from the start, been very flexible with the fact that most of us are students and we can only play shows when we feel like it.”

If the band could go back to the beginning, before performing for hundreds of people and signing to a record label, they would tell each other that being in a band comes with its fair share of compromising.

“I’d say the biggest thing I had to learn was not to get my feelings hurt about certain things we’re trying,” Kelley said. “Everybody's just trying to make the best music possible and that comes with a lot of compromise.”

Slocum would tell herself to not be stubborn — she had never worked with others creatively before joining the band, so compromising and learning from her bandmates was “very new” territory for her. However, this has become her favorite thing about being a bandmate.

“That's one of my favorite things about being in a band now,” Slocum said. “We can make something together that none of us could make on our own.”

Walchonski said the last year has been “crazy” because they’ve played a lot of shows. Their song “Chores” recently received attention from NPR and The New York Times, who name-dropped feeble little horse along with artists Rihanna and SZA. The attention comes in anticipation of feeble’s upcoming tour, which includes performances in Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, D.C. According to Walchonski, the tour runs from late December through early January.

This tour comes with their second album, which the band is yet to formally announce.

“Timeline to be determined,” Walchonski said.

“Part of our band is just taking things as they come.”

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WHERE PITT FOOTBALL’S DRAFTELIGIBLE PLAYERS MAY LAND IN THE 2023 NFL DRAFT

David Scott Staff Writer

In an up-and-down season for Pitt football, the Panthers’ top players are still showing they have what it takes to join an NFL roster. Here is an evaluation of where some of Pitt’s draft-eligible players will end up and when they’ll hear a team call their name.

Defensive lineman, Calijah Kancey Yes, Israel Abanikanda is the best player for Pitt this year. But he will not hear his name called before any other Panther. That honor is reserved for senior defensive lineman Calijah Kancey.

The defensive tackle earned first-team All-ACC honors in the 2021 championship campaign and is well on his way to earning the honor again this year.

He played in 14 games last year and registered 34 total tackles and seven sacks. Appearing in nine games this year, he compiled 26 total tackles and four sacks.

Kancey has an incredibly high ceiling. He’s already explosive and has incredible control of his body. The only thing preventing him from going earlier in the draft is his size. At 6 feet and 275 pounds, he is considered undersized for his position.

prime candidate for the Doak Walker award.

Abanikanda brings a lot of upside to the table. To start, he is young, not turning 21 until October 2023, and he can play longer at a position that typically lacks consistency. He also is an ideal size for the position, at 5 foot 11 inches and 215 pounds, boasting a solid yet compact frame. To go along with that, he has explosive acceleration paired with a good top speed.

The only areas of improvement NFL scouts will look for are his pass-catching and pass-blocking abilities. This year he has seven catches for 109 yards and one touchdown in the passing game, which aren’t bad numbers, but he can make more of an impact catching balls.

Prediction: Miami Dolphins at No. 58 overall If he continues at his current pace, I can see Abanikanda sneaking into the back of the second round to a team looking to take a flier on a potential franchise running back. The Miami Dolphins feel like a perfect landing spot for him. They haven’t had a true franchise back since Ricky Williams. Abanikanda could slot into a high-octane offense that heavily involves the running back position.

Prediction: Kansas City Chiefs at No. 29 overall People may think Kancey’s size is an issue, but I sure don’t. Kancey will make it back-to-back years with a Pitt Panther going in the first round of the NFL Draft. The Kansas City Chiefs don’t have many needs, but the trenches are a weakness for the Chiefs, and Kancey can help them remedy it.

Safety, Erick Hallett II Senior Erick Hallett II looks well positioned to become the next successful defensive back out of Pitt.

Currently a semi-finalist for the Thorpe Award, Hallett is continuing his breakout since being named the MVP of the ACC Championship Game. He has three interceptions, nine pass deflections, three tackles for loss and two fumble recoveries in nine games this year.

Running back, Israel Abanikanda Hallett has the ability to serve as a productive startThe current MVP of the Pitt football season, ju- er in the NFL. If he continues to be a lockdown safety nior running back Israel Abanikanda is rocketing up for the remainder of the year he will only continue to draft boards. With 1,086 rushing yards and 16 rush- rise up draft boards.

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vote in their home state when they live elsewhere — an advantage many college students appreciate — sometimes the mail-in ballots come in too late to mail back or may not even arrive at all. While in Pennsylvania we have the ability to vote early or place mail-in ballots at a drop-off location rather than mail them, there are still issues, such as incorrectly dated or undated mail-in ballots, that could disenfranchise voters.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has barred election officials from counting ballots with the incorrect or missing date on the return envelope.

Officials in Allegheny County and Philadelphia County have released lists of incorrect ballots on Monday, which note that about 1,000 ballots in Allegheny County could be disqualified due to a simple mistake of not adding the date correctly.

Voting at specific polling places can also be inaccessible to many people. In places like Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida where early voting has been eliminated or reduced, many polling places have lines that take hours to vote. Many people do not have the time to wait many hours since they have work or other responsibilities. However, they deserve to vote just as much as anyone else.

Additionally, urban areas with primarily African American and Latino populations often have to wait for the longest, which contributes to the disenfranchisement of non-white voters in this country which is absolutely unfair.

Voting needs to be accessible so that everyone can exercise their democratic right to vote. Accessibility is a right, not a privilege. Your vote and voice matter.

Accessibility is a right, not a privilege.

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The midterm elections have arrived and the stakes have never been higher. Unfortunately, many people have not been able to exercise their right to vote — but not without trying.

Between voter registration difficulties, mailin ballots arriving too late or not at all as well as long lines at polling stations it isn’t always easy to vote. And it shouldn’t be this difficult. The number of steps and challenges that it takes to vote in the U.S. is different from many countries, and it's absolutely unjust. Voting is a right and people deserve to have access to voting.

Voter registration laws have gotten much more extreme, making it much harder for people to vote. Voter ID laws, which require specific forms of identification, disenfranchise eligible voters who may not have a driver’s license or a government-issued ID. Additionally, it costs money to obtain an ID, which also disenfranchises lower-income Americans — who are twice as likely to not have these documents compared to higher-income Americans. More than 11 million Americans do not have government-issued IDs and deserve the right to vote just as much as everyone else does.

Additionally, unlike most other countries, voter registration is decentralized and it’s up to voters to register themselves. Other countries have automatic voter registration, national holidays on Election Day which give people the time to vote and, even in extreme cases, charge a fine to those who don’t vote. The U.S. needs to make it easier to register and give time off for people to vote.

Mail-in ballots are another difficult barrier to voting. While mail-in ballots allow people to

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PITT VETERANS PAINT MASKS, SHARE STORIES TO SPOTLIGHT MENTAL HEALTH

Patrick Swain

Senior Staff Writer Papier-mâché masks adorned in acrylic paint lined the McCarl Center in Posvar Hall on Monday. In the strokes and splatters lay the stories of Pitt’s veterans — the trauma of violence coupled with the pride of service, as well as hope for the future. Whereas traditional masks conceal faces, these ones bore portraits of the painters’ psyches, unveiling the struggles within the minds of student veterans.

To celebrate this year’s Veterans Week at Pitt, the Office of Veteran Services led “Pitt Warriors: Our Stories,” an art exhibition that showcases the lives of student veterans and bolsters conversations surrounding veterans’ mental health. They asked veterans in Pitt’s student body to paint masks with designs conveying their military stories. The office assembled their work and displayed the masks for students to see in room 1400 of Posvar Hall.

According to the office’s website, Pitt is home to more than 500 registered student veterans. Kameron Langston, program coordinator for the office, organized the event to give veterans on campus a creative outlet. She said veterans at Pitt often feel disconnected from the rest of the student body due to their service, age and experience.

“A lot of [veterans] have different identities, different backgrounds and a lot of that comes out when they’re in the military… With all that playing in, they kind of feel a little bit isolated and alone,” Langston said. “Sometimes they feel like they can’t participate in normal university stuff, because [of] some of the barriers they’re facing — a lot of them are older than the typical university population, or they’re just more experienced in the world.”

The Office of Veterans Services hosted a Meeta-Veteran barbecue in the McCarl Center on Monday to coincide with the exhibit, where students could grab a bite to eat while chatting with veterans and admiring the masks. Chance Thomas, a

sophomore social work major who painted a mask and attended the barbecue, said it was vital to destigmatize mental health issues among veterans.

“Veterans, historically, have been like, ‘Mind over matter, we don’t talk about feelings.’ That’s why you’re seeing a lot of veterans coming back with a lot of problems — and it’s not new. We saw it in Vietnam, we just didn’t address it,” Thomas said.

“You’ve got a lot of veterans running around that

the other featured gay and trans pride flags. Thomas said the mask represents the struggle between those two identities.

“I’m half this, half that. You can’t really integrate them fully … Do I have to camouflage all of my face or can I be both at the same time? Sometimes, even as a veteran on campus, historically you can either be a vet or you can be queer or you can be trans,” Thomas said. “What armor am I go-

Kameron Langston, program coordinator of the Office of Veterans Services, stands near papier-mâché masks made by student veterans in the McCarl Center in Posvar Hall on Monday. Ethan Shulman | Staff Photographer look calm on the surface and underneath there’s this riptide of all this stuff going through, because they can’t talk about it in the military. They’re like, ‘Oh, you’re fine.’”

Thomas, who served as a military police officer in the Navy, is openly transgender. His mask illustrated the duality of his life in the military — one half sported blue and gray naval camouflage, while

ing to put on today? What am I safe showing?”

The masks were artistically eclectic — many incorporated military imagery like camouflage and American flags, while others took a more abstract approach with blood, war paint and Arabic calligraphy. Langston said painting these masks allowed veterans to reflect on their own struggles while sharing their stories with other Pitt students.

“[The veterans] are told to tell their military story and how it has affected their integration into the University… we kind of leave it broad and that worked out really well,” Langston said. “[We] give them a chance to tell their story without having to actually tell their story, in a less face-to-face way, so if people are interested in learning about veterans, then they can come in and look at the masks and they don’t have to necessarily talk straight to a veteran.”

Nick Albert, a sophomore marketing major who served in the intelligence community of the Marine Corps, said art helps veterans express the emotions that are difficult to put into words.

“It helps the veterans to express their experiences in ways other than words. Sometimes talking about their experiences is hard for certain veterans,” Albert said. “It’s not the easiest thing to do, especially if they went through a lot.”

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 11-20% of Americans who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan have posttraumatic stress disorder. Suicide rates among veterans peaked in 2018, but have fallen since then. Langston attributes this decrease to increasing consciousness of mental health issues.

For this reason, she said, it’s important that veterans have a chance to express themselves through art.

“People are having mental health conversations and bringing mental health to the forefront of peoples’ minds. As the veterans are making these masks, they’re realizing ‘Wow, I may be struggling a little bit and this mask is bringing stuff up for me,’” Langston said.

“While the masks aren’t meant to be therapy or a therapy intervention, they are a way to start that conversation.”

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upon that success in 2022.

In nine games he has 66 total tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, six sacks and a forced fumble. His tackle for Prediction: Detroit Lions at No. 67 overall loss and sack totals have already matched and surHallett fills a need for a Detroit Lions team that passed his 2021 totals. Dennis definitely has room is desperate for defensive help. Besides an early for improvement in pass coverage, but he flourishes quarterback, I can see the Lions using their draft when he’s blitzing the quarterback. He has the uppicks to bolster their defense and Hallett being a side to flourish into a well-rounded linebacker and part of that plan. rack up sacks in the NFL.

back. Dennis brings immediate help pressuring the While this slump is unfortunately hurting his quarterback in a city and stadium he already knows. draft stock, I think whoever takes him is getting great value late in the draft. I think Baldonado Defensive End, Habakkuk Baldonado presents an incredible amount of upside for someSenior Habakkuk Baldonado is in an interesting one who may not hear their name called until day situation this year. Coming into the season, some two or three. He has a good size and frame, and saw him as a possible first-round pick after his im- with some refinement to his pass-rush moves, he pressive 2021. After a surprisingly slow 2022, he is is capable of returning to his dominant 2021 form. plummeting down draft boards.

In 2021, he had 41 total tackles, 12 tackles for Prediction: Seattle Seahawks at No. 140 overall Linebacker, SirVocea Dennis Prediction: Pittsburgh Steelers at No. 69 overall loss and nine sacks along with a forced fumble. In No one expected the Seahawks to be good this Senior linebacker SirVocea Dennis is consisThe Steelers find themselves in a dilemma that 2022, he is down to 22 total tackles, four tackles for year, but now with a good offseason and draft, they tently impressive and continues to improve from they don’t usually encounter — their defense is loss and one sack. He’s played in five fewer games can be great. They have a lot of picks in the 2023 year to year. He put together a fantastic season in playing poorly. Behind T.J. Watt and Alex High- than he did last year, but the numbers are still sub- draft and can take a risk on a guy who can become the 2021 championship campaign and has built smith, they don’t have any help to get at the quarter- stantially lower. a cornerstone on their defensive line.

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48 *Cowardly type 51 Love, in tennis 52 Chiding syllable 53 Milne bear 54 Puts in order 55 Sibling’s daughter 57 Asanas found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues 60 Scandal-plagued energy company 61 Nebraska city 62 Mined resource 63 Patch, as a lawn 64 Fruit-hitting-thefloor sound 65 Big Apple paper, for short

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