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“2 X 22”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. Let secrets slip 5. Compete in a demolition derby 9. Black, in poems 13. Capital on the Daugava river 14. Duo-chromatic cookie 15. Director Gerwig 16. Con Law student 17. Rodents with soft fur and large ears 19. Small lump 21. Representative Cheney 22. With 30-Down, greatly 23. First Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame 26. Remote power sources 27. With 7-Down, like restaurants where you get fajitas and margaritas 28. For a specific purpose 33. The EU’s predecessor 35. Mayor pro ___ 36. Hospital center 37. Deep-fried burritos with pollo 41. Crushes, as a mid-term 42. Down vote 43. Timeline stretch 44. Short piece of choral music 45. Small drink 46. “Room with a ___” (“Shaun The Sheep” episode) 48. Sluggers train with one 53. With 56-Across, floe makeup 56. See 53-Across 57. Shine 58. 1964 Best Original Song 62. She plots to kill Ares in “The Iliad” 63. Pained smile 64. Ready to eat 65. Wraps things up 66. From Botswana to Namibia, say 67. Time in the bath 68. Optical inflammation DOWN 1. Where hip-hop started 2. OS represented by a penguin 3. Grouping for some kids sporting events 4. Panamanian coin 5. Speed bag user 6. Decaf container 7. See 27-Across 8. Castor’s twin 9. Flub up 10. Drummer’s part 11. Porter on the Warriors 12. Launch party grp.? 15. Actor Ben of “The Big Lebowski” 18. Serving of baloney 20. Joseph Smith’s rel. 24. Bit of news 25. 1966 12-Down mission 29. Comic Bakkedahl 30. See 22-Across 31. Quatrain poet 32. Hermano’s house 33. You might wear a gown during one 34. Danish shoe brand 35. File made in Notepad 36. Biblical pronoun 38. Suffix with crossword and Brooklyn 39. Find small things to complain about 40. Skipper, informally 45. Grabs the wheel 46. Bird on Australia’s coat of arms 47. Some color splashes 49. Olaf Scholz’s “I” 50. New Directions superfan 51. Tending to wear taped glasses 52. Kill off a few characters? 53. Festival where many a musician gets their break 54. Big name in birth control 55. Line in calculus 59. Bodyguard-turned-wrestler-turned-TV personality 60. Christ The Redeemer looks over it, for short 61. Clean drinking water grp.

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