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1. Swimming units : LAPS 5. Not tight : LOOSE 10. Possess : HAVE 14. Geometry calculation : AREA 15. City on the Missouri : OMAHA 16. Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL 17. Laurel or Musial : STAN 18. VCR button : RESET 19. Pastrami purveyor : DELI 20. Actor Quaid transgressed : DENNISSINNED 23. Giant Hall-of-Famer : OTT 26. Not as much : LESS 27. Condoleezza Rice's department : STATE 28. Bongos : DRUMS 30. Two-striper in the Army: Abbr. : CPL 32. Draft org. : SSS 33. Frontiersman Boone did some carpentry : DANIELNAILED 38. Bridge : SPAN 39. St. Nick : SANTA 40. Capital on a fjord : OSLO 44. Actor Hickman showed boredom : DWAYNEYAWNED 47. Fuel economy stat. : MPG 50. Non-earthlings, for short : ETS 51. Asinine : INANE 52. Move on all fours : CRAWL 54. Hydrofluoric ___ : ACID 57. Exxon product : GAS 58. President Ford stared fiercely : GERALDGLARED 62. As a czar, he was terrible : IVAN 63. Home of the University of Maine : ORONO 64. ___ Romeo (sports car) : ALFA 68. Olympic sled : LUGE 69. Assign to, as blame : PINON 70. Potting material : SOIL 71. Popular jeans : LEES 72. Fencing weapons : EPEES 73. Very large : HUGE		1. ___ Cruces, N.M. : LAS 2. "But is it ___?" : ART 3. Vegetable that rolls : PEA 4. Hourglass contents : SAND 5. Greene of "Bonanza" : LORNE 6. Black cats, to the superstitious : OMENS 7. Caravan's stop : OASIS 8. "___ a Lady" (Tom Jones hit) : SHES 9. Diner sign : EATS 10. Lacked, briefly : HADNT 11. Sporting venues : ARENAS 12. Gentlemen's gentlemen : VALETS 13. Omits, in pronunciation : ELIDES 21. Ultimatum ender : ELSE 22. Man or Wight : ISLE 23. ___ and ends : ODDS 24. Links hazard : TRAP 25. Albacore or yellowfin : TUNA 29. Intellect : MIND 30. Hit with a ticket : CITE 31. Thespian production : PLAY 34. Future D.A.'s exam : LSAT 35. Ayes' opposite : NAYS 36. Cape ___, Mass. : ANN 37. Low in spirits : DOWN 41. Hose problem : SNAG 42. ___ the Hyena : LENA 43. Praiseful poems : ODES 45. Place to make a wish : WELL 46. Assistant : AIDE 47. Montreal university : MCGILL 48. Advance look, informally : PREVUE 49. It may have a remote-activated door : GARAGE 53. Declines : WANES 54. "Home ___," Macaulay Culkin movie : ALONE 55. Tippy craft : CANOE 56. Numbered clubs : IRONS 59. Latest news, slangily : DOPE 60. Stagehand : GRIP 61. Sprinter's event : DASH 65. Singer Rawls : LOU 66. Tiniest amount to care : FIG 67. "Cakes and ___" (Maugham novel) : ALE