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1D
Picnic pests
ANTS
2D
State that produces the most corn
IOWA
3D
Weather-related stoppage in baseball
RAIN DELAY
4D
Beach footwear
SANDALS
5D
Tool building
SHED
6D
Lipton offering
TEA
7D
Genesis vessel
ARK
8D
Word before congestion or spray
NASAL
9D
Job that might involve watching the kids?
GOATHERD
10D
Variety
ILK
11D
French farewell
ADIEU
12D
Rats!
NERTS!
13D
Use a stencil on
TRACE
18D
Amorous cartoon skunk
PEPE
22D
No thanks
I’LL PASS
25D
President after Nixon
FORD
26D
Like a sheep with all its wool
UNSHORN
27D
Praiseful poem
ODE
28D
Onetime Volvo competitor
SAAB
29D
K, in the NATO alphabet
KILO
30D
According to conventional wisdom …
THEY SAY …
35D
Place to drink lined with TVs
SPORTS BAR
36D
French “to be”
ETRE
37D
So long!
TA-TA!
39D
Joy Adamson book about Elsa the lioness
BORN FREE
40D
Fencing sword
EPEE
43D
Coat and ___
TIE
45D
Decrease
FALL OFF
48D
Soft mineral
TALC
49D
Phony doc
QUACK
50D
Unscrupulous moneylending
USURY
51D
Rarin’ to go
EAGER
52D
Republican pol Haley from South Carolina
NIKKI
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56D
Gets 16-Across
AGES
57D
Buffalo’s lake
ERIE
58D
Sour
TART
60D
Prefix with dermis
EPI-
62D
Monsters, ___ (2001 movie)
INC
63D
Word before a maiden name
NEE
1A
Puts on TV or radio
AIRS
5A
Ending on several central Asian country names
STAN
9A
Meanie in “Jack and the Beanstalk”
GIANT
14A
U.S. weather agcy.
NOAA
15A
Zeus’ wife
HERA
16A
___ and wiser
OLDER
17A
1990s TV series about a murder in a town in Washington
TWIN PEAKS
19A
Film director Kurosawa
AKIRA
20A
Made smooth, as wood
SANDED
21A
Part of the conjugation of the French “avoir”
AIT
23A
And others, for short
ETC
24A
Bump fists
DAP
25A
K-K-K-5-5, e.g., in poker
FULL HOUSE
28A
Exhibit in an anatomy class
SKELETON
31A
Guided
LED
32A
Is sick
AILS
33A
Four-baggers: Abbr.
HRS
34A
Like favorite stations on a car radio
PRESET
38A
Pie ___ mode
A LA
39A
Result of failure to comb the hair after sleep, maybe …or a feature of 17-, 25-, 49- or 61-Across?
BED HEAD
41A
School grp.
PTA
42A
Young male viewed as a sex object
BOY TOY
44A
Black ___ (covert doings)
OPS
45A
___ Ticonderoga
FORT
46A
Apr. 15 mail addressee
IRS
47A
Place to pull over on an interstate
REST AREA
49A
English monarch with a “lace” named after her
QUEEN ANNE
53A
___-rock (music genre)
ALT
54A
Land between Can. and Mex.
USA
55A
Inits. at the start of a memo
FYI
56A
You ready?
ALL SET?
59A
Drilling tool
AUGER
61A
Hooded snake
KING COBRA
64A
Thin pancake
CREPE
65A
Place for the banjo in “Oh! Susanna”
KNEE
66A
Exposition
FAIR
67A
N.B.A. star ___ Irving
KYRIE
68A
Freezes, with “over”
ICES
69A
Worry
FRET