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1D
Imitates Sylvester the Cat
LISPS
2D
It’s just for starters
INTRO
3D
Dumps
STIES
4D
Novelist ___ Neale Hurston
ZORA
5D
Proportional
TO SCALE
6D
Muhammad’s successor, to Shiites
ALI
7D
Like hormones synthesized from amino acids
NON-STEROID
8D
Skinny
INFO
9D
Happy end-of-week cry
TGIF!
10D
Not steady, as a light
AFLICKER
11D
Canon offering, for short
SLR
12D
It might stop a break-in
ALARM BELL
13D
Just kidding
NOT REALLY
16D
And others
ET ALIA
17D
Guitarist Borland
WES
21D
___ polloi
HOI
26D
Sci-fi craft
UFOS
28D
Them’s fightin’ words!
IT’S ON!
30D
Where legends are born?
RUMOR MILLS
32D
Fed. management agency
GSA
33D
Sign of a crying jag
TEARSTAIN
34D
___ Springs, Fla.
ALTAMONTE
35D
Subway
METRO
38D
Grp. of pinheads?
PBA
39D
With 53-Down, blogger’s bugbear
INTERNET
40D
Missing name in the tongue twister “I saw ___ sawing wood …”
ESAU
43D
Livestock attachment
EAR TAG
45D
Having an advantage over
ONE UP ON
48D
Belief system
ISM
51D
Where legends appear
ATLAS
52D
The Pearl Fishers priestess
LEILA
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
53D
See 39-Down
TROLL
54D
Org. providing loans
IMF
56D
Suffix with high numbers
AIRE
57D
Family
CLAN
59D
Resting place
SOFA
61D
[Snore]
ZZZ
62D
Summer cooler
ADE
1C
Dante Symphony composer
LISZT
6C
West Side Story woman
ANITA
11C
___ Marino
SAN
14C
___ deep
IN TOO
15C
Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares
LONGFELLOW
18C
Shows signs of waking
STIRS
19C
Enter surreptitiously, as an organization
INFILTRATE
20C
Speak the gospel
PREACH
22C
Eastern European capital
SOFIA
23C
Employers of dispatchers and brakemen: Abbr.
RRS
24C
Help!
SOS
25C
Month in l’été
AOUT
27C
Region, weatherwise
CLIME
29C
Big house party?
LIFER
31C
Purchase at an Army-Navy store
KIT BAG
33C
Civilize
TAME
36C
Tulsa sch.
ORU
37C
Oil holders, maybe
EASELS
38C
One-named athlete whose real first name is Edson
PELE
39C
Chemical cousin
ISOMER
41C
Ceramic jar
OLLA
42C
Secure, with “down”
BATTEN
44C
Hand-held platform
IOS
45C
Just
ONLY
46C
Old Testament peak
ARARAT
47C
Free of fluid
DRAIN
49C
Snack with a chewy center
S’MORE
50C
Become absorbed in thought
MUSE
51C
Keyboard abbr.
ALT
54C
Simpson’s trial judge
ITO
55C
Actress Lords
TRACI
58C
Drum up
MUSTER
60C
Variety of sherry whose name means “little apple”
MANZANILLA
63C
Vaccine target
POLIO
64C
Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the shaded squares
FITZGERALD
65C
Phrase often following a superlative
… OF ALL
66C
Pince-___
NEZ
67C
Present, e.g.
TENSE
68C
Like the sounds “m” and “n”
NASAL