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1. Deserter : APOSTATE 9. Main engagement? : SEAWAR 15. Kind of fin on a fish : PECTORAL 16. Person at home : UMPIRE 17. Safecrackers, slangily : PETERMEN 18. Corrupting influence : MIASMA 19. Oft-repeated words : ADAGE 20. Foot-long stretchers : BOOTTREES 22. Dyslexic TV host with a college degree in speech therapy : LENO 23. Cotton Club standout of the '30s : HORNE 24. 252-gallon measures : TUNS 25. Doesn't bother : LETSBE 27. Computer prefix meaning 2 to the 40th power : TERA 29. "___ che penso" (Handel aria) : PIU 30. Dress cuts : ALINES 32. Rigel, for one : BSTAR 34. "The Good German" actor, 2006 : MAGUIRE 37. Area between forest and prairie, e.g. : ECOTONE 39. Bushy-tailed? : ALERT 40. Nero's homeland : PATRIA 42. River to the Yangtze : HAN 43. Fire : ZEAL 45. Best in one's position : ALLPRO 49. "Ha!" : IBET 51. Remain close : CLING 53. Cant : LEAN 54. Oil-rich South American basin : MARACAIBO 56. Kites, e.g. : BIRDS 57. C relative : AMINOR 58. Food carried by doves : AMBROSIA 60. Manage : HACKIT 61. Style of envelope for greeting cards : BARONIAL 62. Irreparably cracked : INSANE 63. Water : ADAMSALE		1. Scandalize, e.g. : APPALL 2. River with an alphabetical-sounding name : PEEDEE 3. Piece of pie, often : OCTANT 4. Literally, "roof lizard" : STEGOSAUR 5. Flew : TORE 6. Magazine article : ARM 7. Regimen with "cardio bursts" : TAEBO 8. The United States, to some prospective immigrants : ELNORTE 9. Early South Carolina senator Thomas : SUMTER 10. Let off : EMIT 11. Cut off : APART 12. See through at last : WISEUPTO 13. Member of the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion : ARMENIAN 14. Calm, say : REASSURE 21. Quick round of tennis : ONESET 23. Scion : HEIR 26. Defeat quickly and overwhelmingly : BLITZ 28. Furious : ABOIL 31. Asian language with 14+ million speakers : NEPALI 33. Studs : STALLIONS 34. Brilliantly colored food fish that changes hues when removed from the water : MAHIMAHI 35. Hank Williams or Nat King Cole : ALABAMAN 36. No-names : GENERICS 38. Bit of a bluff : CRAG 41. Morgiana's storied master : ALIBABA 44. Game played with a piquet deck : ECARTE 46. One side in the Battle of Marathon : PERSIA 47. Like sunbeams : RADIAL 48. Ready to move : ONSALE 50. Poem of 31 syllables in five lines : TANKA 52. Land rover : NOMAD 55. Eagle, e.g. : COIN 56. ___ Bones of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" : BROM 59. It's under a top : BRA