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“SLICES THROUGH”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. Greek restaurant app 6. Wax collector 10. Does a semester’s amount of work in one night 15. To no ___ (futilely) 16. Costa Rican woman, casually 17. Make more cheesy 18. Dylan went on a long tirade? 20. “___ Holmes” (2020 movie about Sherlock’s sister) 21. Road in Venice 22. Like mad, for Kim Deal 24. Tempo meas. 27. Funny humans? 29. Like baba 31. ___ Martin 32. “Let’s do this!” 33. Thing to work on 34. Lambert Airport code 37. ‘60s peacenik put out of place? 42. English cathedral city 43. Pulitzer prize-winning composer Charles 44. “These are the times that try men’s souls” writer 45. Add, as an extra 47. It got burned in the ‘90s 49. The Last Frontier plagiarized ? 53. Saucer drivers 54. Early TV goth character played by Maila Nurmi 55. Slight suggestion 57. Cowboy Michael 58. Diaper that’s impossible to get clean? 63. Talent buyer 64. Moonfish 65. St. Catherine’s hometown 66. “Think again there, pal” 67. Easily duped sorts 68. No more, no less DOWN 1. Slight touch 2. Lacto-___-vegetarian 3. Test center? 4. Potpourri: Abbr. 5. “House of Gucci” actor 6. Like blue books 7. Hesitant thought 8. Serving accomplishment 9. Like a supremely cool dude 10. Extremely inferior 11. Celebrated, as the New Year 12. Livorno love 13. 2020 Disney remake 14. Floods Gmail, possibly 19. Going along with 23. “Well, obviously!” 24. Name dropper, sometimes? 25. Last name of Parvati and Padma in the Potterverse 26. Rapper Elliott 28. “Not all heroes wear ___” 30. Step on the scale 33. Note taker in the court 34. Volleyball attack 35. Faint color 36. Yorkshire metropolis 38. Blunt object? 39. Guacamole ingredients 40. Tablet cover 41. Container for the word added to this puzzle’s theme answers 45. Rotational moves in Tetris that fit a certain piece into tight spaces 46. Rather like 47. Labor accomplishments? 48. Not fatty 49. Bird-related 50. Slow pace 51. Former G.I. 52. One may be under the kitchen sink 56. “Condor” channel 59. Draft selection 60. Green hue 61. Business magazine 62. Enjoy this puzzle’s theme, say

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