11/16/16
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1D
News network with a stock ticker
CNBC
2D
Get better
HEAL
3D
Teen’s affliction
ACNE
4D
Bart or Ringo
STARR
5D
Modest two-piece bathing suit
TANKINI
6D
Time in history
ERA
7D
Silent screen actress Naldi
NITA
8D
Dreamboat
ADONIS
9D
Genghis Khan, e.g.
MONGOL
10D
Singer of love songs
BALLADEER
11D
Cookie that started as a Hydrox knockoff
OREO
12D
Close
NEAR
13D
Tennis player who posthumously received a Presidential Medal of Freedom
ASHE
21D
Kicked off
BEGAN
22D
Rare blood type, for short
A-NEG
24D
Gives a bad review
PANS
26D
Build-___ Workshop (toy retailer)
A-BEAR
27D
QB Brett
FAVRE
28D
Why should ___? (“No, it doesn’t bother me”)
I MIND
31D
Early American diplomat Silas
DEANE
32D
Available from a keg
ON TAP
33D
Crowd reactions to a daredevil
GASPS
35D
2015 Whitey Bulger biopic
BLACK MASS
36D
Maple syrup, essentially
SAP
40D
Achieve great success
GO FAR
41D
Mop, as a deck
SWAB
44D
Quickly pan (in)
ZOOM
46D
Microsoft’s defunct digital encyclopedia
ENCARTA
48D
Question repeatedly posed by Ferris Bueller’s teacher
ANYONE?
49D
Indian drums similar to bongos
TABLAS
54D
Embarrassing laugh accompanier
SNORT
55D
Org. for the New York Liberty
WNBA
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
56D
Lug
HAUL
57D
Diarist Frank
ANNE
58D
Citrus drinks
ADES
60D
Chomsky who wrote “Syntactic Structures”
NOAM
61D
Big name in sports shoes
AVIA
62D
Country singer Loretta
LYNN
65D
Gift of ___
GAB
1A
Like a virgin
CHASTE
7A
Apocalypse Now setting, familiarly
NAM
10A
___ fides (credentials)
BONA
14A
Bees collect it
NECTAR
15A
Altar vow
I DO
16A
Olympian war god
ARES
17A
Easily bruised fruit
BANANA
18A
This weighs a ___!
TON
19A
Jacob’s first wife
LEAH
20A
Bob Cratchit’s job in “A Christmas Carol”
CLERK
21A
City called the “Silicon Valley of India”
BANGALORE
23A
Like yellow 17-Acrosses
RIPE
25A
College in New Rochelle, N.Y.
IONA
26A
Org. with a “100 Years …100 Movies” list
AFI
29A
Ask “Can I?” repeatedly, say
NAG
30A
Musher puller
SLED DOG
34A
Little Italian girls
BAMBINAS
37A
Actress Davis of “Beetlejuice”
GEENA
38A
Bad to the bone
EVIL
39A
Hang-ups
SNAGS
42A
Chows down
EATS
43A
Ball’s partner
ARNAZ
45A
Post-lunch pick-me-up
POWER NAP
47A
British soldier in the Revolution
RED COAT
50A
Computer cooler
FAN
51A
Mini-albums, informally
EPS
52A
Hawaiian coffee region
KONA
53A
Basics
ABCS
55A
Hendrix famously used one in his Woodstock rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
WHAMMY BAR
59A
Record of the year
ANNAL
63A
Granny
NANA
64A
Like most knock-knock jokes
OLD
65A
Cool, in the 1960s
GROOVY
66A
Hamburger holders
BUNS
67A
When doubled, a 2010s dance
NAE
68A
Duke Ellington’s “Take the ___”
A TRAIN
69A
Pub orders
ALES
70A
Tee preceder
ESS
71A
1960s TV icon whose name follows a pair of letters found, appropriately, 16 times in this puzzle’s Across answers
BATMAN