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1. In a poem, it "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" : RAVEN 6. Sing like Mel Tormé : SCAT 10. Use cue cards : READ 14. Slightly ahead : UPONE 15. Part of a military band : TUBA 16. ___ dixit : IPSE 17. Anxious baseball player at the plate? : BATTWIRLER 19. Talk like Daffy : LISP 20. Supermarket bagful : ICE 21. Great literature it's not : SMUT 22. Wallpaper and such : DECOR 23. "Big Sur" writer, 1962 : KEROUAC 25. Worst in the worst way : TROUNCE 27. Sign above a luau buffet? : PICKYOURPOIS 29. Working factory, e.g. : ASSET 32. Actress Popplewell of "The Chronicles of Narnia" : ANNA 33. ___ in victory : VAS 34. Hogwarts stick : WAND 35. High-school disrupters : GANGS 37. Big party : FETE 38. ___ premium : ATA 39. Out of order : DOWN 40. Broad valleys : DALES 41. Land of laughs? : YUKTERRITORY 45. Horace who founded the New York Tribune : GREELEY 46. They may be seen on slides : AMOEBAS 50. Certain resident of Yemen : ADENI 51. Ready : PREP 52. Home of Sault Ste. Marie: Abbr. : ONT 53. It may be held at a 39-Down : MAYO 54. Flood of ideas? : BRAINSURGE 57. Observer : EYER 58. Barn young 'un : CALF 59. Where to see "bombs bursting" : INAIR 60. Flat sound : SSSS 61. One who wants you to put away everything he sets out : CHEF 62. Two-time Time Man of the Year (and a hint to 17-, 27-, 41- and 54-Across) : NIXON		1. 1980s craze starter : RUBIK 2. Quickly : APACE 3. Campaign target : VOTER 4. Suffix with insist : ENT 5. Preinterview purchase, maybe : NEWSUIT 6. Lit, as a match : STRUCK 7. Zealot's group : CULT 8. Five-spot : ABE 9. Contents of some pits : TAR 10. Provoke : RILEUP 11. "War and Peace," e.g. : EPICNOVEL 12. Business partner : ASSOCIATE 13. Takes the starch out of : DEPRESSES 18. Product promoted as having both "beauty" and "brains" : IMAC 22. Nickelodeon's explorer : DORA 24. Newspaper piece : OPED 25. Chinese secret society : TONG 26. Directs : RUNS 28. One-named New Age musician : YANNI 29. Road trip events : AWAYGAMES 30. Popular dates for dates : SATURDAYS 31. Loser at the dice table : SNAKEEYES 35. Blood : GORE 36. Out of whack : AWRY 37. Actress Dunaway : FAYE 39. Shop with 53-Across : DELI 40. Pays a visit : DROPSIN 42. Choir section : TENORS 43. Duty : TARIFF 44. Harbinger : OMEN 47. Powdered cleaning agent : BORAX 48. Hospital procedure, for short : ANGIO 49. Draconian : STERN 51. Washed out : PALE 54. Abbr. atop some e-mails : BCC 55. Cheering word : RAH 56. Sea urchin, at a sushi bar : UNI