3/22/17
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1D
Dude!
BRO
2D
Cold War threat
RED CHINA
3D
Dealer’s query
ARE YOU IN
4D
Big brand of kitchen knives
CUTCO
5D
Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues”
ENSLER
6D
Swamp critter
CROC
7D
Early historian of ancient Rome
LIVY
8D
Quickly
APACE
9D
The Shape of Things to Come author
WELLS
10D
Brief period in nuclear physics: Abbr.
MSEC
11D
Modest response to a compliment
I TRY
12D
D.E.A. agents, informally
NARCOS
13D
Change through time
EVOLVE
14D
Like favorite literary passages
REREAD
22D
Part of the URL for 27-Across
EDU
23D
Popular afternoon talk show
ELLEN
24D
You lowdown, no-good bum, e.g.
SLUR
29D
One-track
MONO
30D
Sets (down)
PUTS
32D
The supreme ___ of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting: Sun Tzu
ART
33D
Corner office, maybe
PERK
35D
R.B.I., for one
STAT
37D
Accelerated pace
TROT
38D
In the pink
HALE
40D
Actor Stephen
REA
41D
Basis of some insurance fraud
ARSON
42D
Amazon menace
ANACONDA
43D
What “ex-” means
NO LONGER
44D
Duplicate
TWIN
47D
Obsolescent communications devices
PAGERS
48D
Severe malaise
ANOMIE
49D
Like “n” and “r,” in phonetics
SONANT
51D
Kerfuffle
ADO
52D
Popular puzzle invented in Japan
KENKEN
56D
Words on some blood drive stickers
I GAVE
57D
Enjoyed immensely
LOVED
59D
Like “Dancing With the Stars” dancers
AGILE
61D
Basic concept
GIST
62D
Nondairy substitute
OLEO
63D
Jerry Lewis’s “Nutty Professor” was an early example of one
NERD
64D
Overcast
GRAY
68D
Most AARP members: Abbr.
SRS
1A
___ yourself!
BRACE
6A
Crayfish feature
CLAW
10A
Figure of the underground economy?
MINER
15A
Fresh air’s opposite?
RERUN
16A
Well positioned (for)
RIPE
17A
Barrel part
STAVE
18A
Waiting for Lefty playwright
ODETS
19A
Many a toy train track
OVAL
20A
Variable estimated by pollsters
ERROR
21A
Kid’s transport, literally
CYCLE CYCLE CYCLE (TRI-CYCLE)
24A
Drove off
SHOOED
25A
Night class subj.
ESL
26A
Cells for new generations
OVA
27A
Sch. with campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville
LIU
28A
___ steak (British term for a sirloin cut)
RUMP
31A
Unrenewed, as a subscription
LAPSED
34A
Les États-___
UNIS
36A
Present location, when visiting the boondocks
OUT HERE
39A
Graph section, literally
RANT RANT RANT RANT (i.e QUAD-RANT)
45A
Secret application, perhaps
AEROSOL
46A
False face must hide what the false heart doth ___: Macbeth
KNOW
47A
Nonmeat choices at a deli counter
PASTAS
50A
With 55-Across, preservative for fine wood furniture
TEAK
53A
Laila of the ring
ALI
54A
Many meses in México
ANO
55A
See 50-Across
OIL
58A
Mass figure
DEACON
60A
Military headquarters, literally
GON GON GON GON GON (i.e PENTA-GON)
65A
Hacking target
EMAIL
66A
State firmly
AVER
67A
Biblical book duo
KINGS
69A
Salon procedure
RINSE
70A
Designer Wang
VERA
71A
Descriptor of many statesmen
ELDER
72A
Brawl
SET TO
73A
Stream disturbance
EDDY
74A
Edges up to
NEARS
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