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1. "Dagnabbit!" : NERTS 6. "No more!" : UNCLE 11. Title on a bottle of bubbly : DOM 14. Not promising : BLEAK 15. Pamplona runners : TOROS 16. Winter coat : ICE 17. Ones looking way up : COCKEYEDOPTIMISTS 20. Pronoun in a "Concentration" rebus : EWE 21. Spirit raisers : SEANCES 22. A ruler may have them : CENTIMETERS 27. Palate-pleasing : TASTY 28. "That'll teach you!" look : SNEER 29. Short coat : REEFER 31. Short report : POP 32. Sought a judgment : SUED 34. Some bricks : ADOBES 38. King Harald's predecessor : OLAV 40. Dickens character (and title of this puzzle) : TINYTIM 42. Go in only a little way, say : WADE 43. "Honor Thy Father" author : TALESE 45. Face shape : OVAL 47. Year that Botticelli died : MDX 48. Peace of mind : REPOSE 50. Hit musical revue of 1978 : EUBIE 52. "Return of the Jedi" villain : JABBA 55. Eyewitness reports, maybe : TESTIMONIES 57. Deadlock : IMPASSE 59. Take your pick : OPT 60. Fat cats : MULTIMILLIONAIRES 66. E. Lansing school : MSU 67. Some Damon Runyon characters : DOLLS 68. High-pitched : REEDY 69. Triumphant shout : YES 70. Cuddly creatures of Endor : EWOKS 71. Critical times : DDAYS		1. It aired the first coast-to-coast Oscar telecast, 1953 : NBC 2. "Telephone Line" rock grp. : ELO 3. Tape deck button : REC 4. Not rush : TAKETIME 5. Stabs : SKEWERS 6. Versatile truck, informally : UTE 7. Positive sign : NOD 8. Game stick : CROSSE 9. Bound : LOPE 10. Not exact : ESTIMATED 11. Parts of some farm tillers : DISCS 12. Square dance group, e.g. : OCTET 13. Tangled : MESSY 18. To this day : YET 19. Lined up : INAROW 22. 100 smackers : CSPOT 23. Name on a bomber : ENOLA 24. High land : NEPAL 25. "I'll speak a prophecy ___ go": Shak. : EREI 26. Cold shower? : REDNOSE 30. Last wife of Bluebeard : FATIMA 33. Lone Star State sch. : UTEP 35. Buck of filmdom : BAMBI 36. Actor Albert : EDDIE 37. Battle of the ___ : SEXES 39. Exactly : VERBATIM 41. "Z" actor Montand : YVES 44. Fun-in-the-sun spot : SEASIDE 46. Fast cat : LEOPARD 49. 1887 Verdi opera : OTELLO 51. Set free : UNTIED 52. Force open : JIMMY 53. Divert : AMUSE 54. Good average : BPLUS 56. Title character in Shakespeare : TIMON 58. Not rushed : SLOW 61. Class : ILK 62. Hush-hush W.W. II grp. : OSS 63. Classic New Yorker cartoonist Gardner ___ : REA 64. Dreyer's partner in ice cream : EDY 65. Part of S.S.S.: Abbr. : SYS