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1. Gillette razor : ATRA 5. Meal-in-a-can brand : ALPO 9. Alarming : SCARY 14. In view : SEEN 15. Noggin : BEAN 16. Divided Asian land : KOREA 17. Feel like quarreling about something : HAVEABONETOPICK 20. Gangster's code of silence : OMERTA 21. On ___ with (even with) : APAR 22. ___'wester : SOU 23. No halfway effort : TOTALCOMMITMENT 26. Rand who wrote "Atlas Shrugged" : AYN 27. Sch. where Shaquille O'Neal played basketball : LSU 28. Writer's guidelines : SPECS 32. Spanish uncles : TIOS 35. Mexican restaurant offering : TACO 39. "Heads up!," e.g. : ALERT 40. Letters after two slashes : WWW 41. Grounds for a good night's sleep? : DECAF 42. Dick Van ___ : DYKE 43. Addlebrain : LOON 44. Skilled : ADEPT 45. "___ see it ..." : ASI 47. Enterprise inits. : USS 49. Basis of a false arrest, perhaps : TRUMPEDUPCHARGE 58. Suffix with hotel : IER 59. Richard and Jane in court : ROES 60. Gain back : RECOUP 61. Going past the fourth quarter, say : PLAYINGOVERTIME 64. Altimeter user : PILOT 65. Again : ANEW 66. Hamburg's river : ELBE 67. Informal reply to "Who's there?" : ITSME 68. Like the Beatles' Sadie : SEXY 69. U.K. military medals : DSOS		1. Give ___ in the arm : ASHOT 2. "I love you," in Spanish : TEAMO 3. Support with stone, as an embankment : REVET 4. "It's the end of ___" : ANERA 5. Monastic jurisdiction : ABBACY 6. "Bus 9 to Paradise" author Buscaglia : LEO 7. ___ Games : PANAM 8. Common lunch hr. : ONEPM 9. Women's hybrid clothing : SKORTS 10. Steal, slangily : COP 11. Greet the day : ARISE 12. A little advance work : RECON 13. Native of NE Siberia : YAKUT 18. "Finally!" : ATLAST 19. Call after a toss : TAILS 24. When a football may be hiked : ONTWO 25. No longer bright, as colors : MUTED 28. "___ but true" : SAD 29. Use diligently : PLY 30. "A cockroach!" : EEK 31. Alfredo sauce ingredient : CREAM 33. "Sands of ___ Jima" : IWO 34. Confess : OWNUP 36. Dead man's hand card : ACE 37. Gown's partner : CAP 38. "How ___ Has the Banshee Cried" (Thomas Moore poem) : OFT 41. One of a seasonal octet : DASHER 43. Use as a bed : LIEON 46. "Obey your thirst" sloganeer, once : SPRITE 48. Off the wall : SCREWY 49. Hedren of Hitchcock's "The Birds" : TIPPI 50. Activated again, as a burner : RELIT 51. Range extending south from the Kara Sea : URALS 52. "At the Milliner's" painter : DEGAS 53. Auto route from Me. to Fla. : USONE 54. Did one's part? : ACTED 55. Agitates : ROILS 56. Okra stew : GUMBO 57. They're guarded at the Olympics : EPEES 62. ___ Kippur : YOM 63. Annoy : VEX