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“I’M NOT DRESSED FOR THE WEATHER”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. Job ID 4. Snow removal necessity 8. Immunity expert seen on TV 14. Japanese fish 15. Student possibly maybe looking forward to a Zoom PSAT: Abbr. 16. Prove to be false 17. Sort 18. I highly doubt this is going to fit round my neck ... 20. Kind of sushi 22. Equipment for holding 23. Layabout 24. ... and this is way too wet to go outside in ... 27. Stamp on grass-fed beef 28. ___-Coburg 29. Do covering 31. Make pretty 33. ... is this supposed to go on my head? ... 39. Douze less deux 40. Drawing forth 42. The past 43. ... these flowers won’t keep my hands warm ... 45. Delegate in Manhattan 47. That, in Tegucigalpa 48. What you can’t do to any of this puzzle’s theme answers 49. Dropped a deuce 52. ... how will I walk with this on? ... 58. “Sweet Jesus!” 60. Two for the seesaw 61. French 101 lesson 62. ... where do my arms go? Besides, this is way too thin 65. “Go-Big Show” channel 66. Deck out 67. Contact solution brand 68. Alternative to French 69. Bulgogi, e.g. 70. East, in Ecuador 71. Elementary org.? DOWN 1. Cut back 2. ___ panel 3. Rock star who wrote the autobiography “The Heroin Diaries” 4. Anti-distracted driving spot 5. Home for “Liberty Leading the People” 6. Visual 7. Whichever person, old-style 8. Boston skyscraper, familiarly, with “the” 9. It can lower your interest payments 10. Not working 11. “The Last Dance” team 12. Racing horse 13. You are here, in sci-fi 19. “___ culpa” 21. Mosque leader 25. Kicks out 26. As compared to 30. Master debater 31. E-signature file 32. Setting for Hitchcock’s “Notorious” 33. Wheels with bad MPG 34. Speedy point 35. French flower 36. Ginger 37. Have a few birthdays 38. Play with Bubble Wrap, say 41. Online “brah” 44. Act sarcastic 46. Local ‘hood 48. “You ___ kidding!” 49. Hit to the side of the face 50. Mic check phrase 51. Tree-lined shelter 53. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act org. 54. Mollusk shell lining 55. U.S. Bank Stadium team, for short 56. Space junk’s path 57. Inventor of the alternating current induction motor 59. JCC alternative 63. Psaki who will be Joe Biden’s press secretary 64. Voting day: Abbr.

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