1/20/17
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1D
Queen’s longtime record label
EMI
2D
Postal sheet
PANE
3D
Only remaining home of the Asiatic cheetah
IRAN
4D
Sound repeatedly heard at a wedding reception
TING!
5D
Flags down
HAILS
6D
Decoy
ENTICE
7D
Little green men
TOY SOLDIERS
8D
Has way more than enough, for short
ODS
9D
See 50-Down
URIS
10D
Approximate end of a rush hour
TEN AM
11D
Like some census data
RACIAL
12D
Spot for spirited worshipers
AMEN CORNER
13D
Cape Ann’s area
NORTH SHORE
14D
It’s capped and often slapped
KNEE
20D
Something to enter with a card
HOTEL ROOM
23D
TV character who fronted as a waste management consultant
TONY SOPRANO
25D
[Gag!]
RETCH!
26D
Aid in clearing the air
EXHAUST FAN
27D
Apartment that’s a second home
PIED-A-TERRE
28D
No-frills: Abbr.
STD
30D
Junior or “senior” mil. Figure
NCO
32D
Like some stalled vehicles
TOWED
34D
French seasoning
SEL
36D
Ginnie Mae’s dept.
HUD
39D
One who might drug a boxer
VET
40D
___ Mo’, three-time Grammy-winning bluesman
KEB
45D
Hoffman won Best Actor for playing him
CAPOTE
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
47D
Chief flight attendant
PURSER
50D
1967 Cold War suspense novel by 9-Down
TOPAZ
52D
Florence’s ___ Palace
PITTI
53D
Scores of these may plague high schoolers
SATS
54D
Less than slim
NONE
56D
Chat, across the Pyrénées
GATO
57D
Setting of Sisyphus’ perpetual rock-pushing
HILL
58D
Almond or pecan
TREE
60D
Additions after closings, in brief
PSS
62D
One of three for Sisyphus?
ESS
1A
The Great or “the Terrible”
EPITHET
8A
Have more stripes than
OUTRANK
15A
Yankees closer Rivera
MARIANO
16A
Not gonna happen!
DREAM ON
17A
Senselessness
INANITY
18A
Authentic
SINCERE
19A
Like pork pie and clotted cream
ENGLISH
21A
Femme with a halo
SAINTE
22A
Hustle
SCOOT
24A
Eponymous physicist Ernst
MACH
25A
Training tally
REPS
29A
John with an Oscar
ELTON
31A
Bewildered
LOST
33A
Turnpike ticket listings
EXITS
35A
Best Actress nominee for “Philomena,” 2013
DENCH
37A
Sorority character
RHO
38A
Better adversary to deal with, in a saying
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
41A
Unlikely husband material
CAD
42A
Looks like a 41-Across
LEERS
43A
Name on an excavator
DEERE
44A
Old blacklisting org.
HUAC
46A
Brownies with cookies, maybe
TROOP
48A
Fostered
BRED
49A
Turnovers, e.g.
STAT
51A
Absorb
SOP UP
53A
Activate, as a wah-wah pedal
STEP ON
55A
Husband material
MR RIGHT
59A
Genre for Ladysmith Black Mambazo
AFRO-POP
61A
1984 biography subtitled “The Man, the Dancer”
ASTAIRE
63A
Royal Stewart and Clan Donald
TARTANS
64A
Bugs
NETTLES
65A
Needs blessing, maybe
SNEEZES
66A
They play just north of the Ravens
ORIOLES