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1. Bird in the "Arabian Nights" : ROC 4. Traffic tie-up : SNARL 9. Morning hour : TENAM 14. Actor Gulager : CLU 15. Playful sprite : PIXIE 16. Throat dangler : UVULA 17. Alphabetic trio : CDE 18. 38-Across, in a sense : ACEOFSPADES 20. Decides one will : OPTSTO 22. Afternoon social : TEA 23. Request to a switchboard oper. : EXT 24. Secular : LAIC 25. Composer of the "Brandenburg Concertos," in brief : JSBACH 28. 38-Across, in a sense : ALPHAMALE 31. Throw out : OUST 35. Verdi aria : ERITU 36. Squanders : WASTES 38. 1964 #1 hit by the Shangri-Las ... or this puzzle's theme : LEADEROFTHEPACK 42. Excite : AROUSE 43. Italian flowers : FIORI 44. Mural site : WALL 45. 38-Across, in a sense : DENMOTHER 49. Personify : EMBODY 52. Five-star : AONE 53. Letters before a pseudonym : AKA 56. U.R.L. ending : ORG 57. "Uncle" of old TV : MILTIE 59. 38-Across, in a sense : MARLBOROMAN 63. Former Vladimir Putin org. : KGB 64. Zhou ___ : ENLAI 65. Being of service : UTILE 66. Funnyman Philips : EMO 67. Seat that may have a swivel top : STOOL 68. All-night trucker's aid : NODOZ 69. Tibetan beast : YAK		1. Soft drink since 1905 : RCCOLA 2. Friend since high school, say : OLDPAL 3. Place for chalk : CUETIP 4. Petty quarrel : SPAT 5. One-named singer for the 1960s Velvet Underground : NICO 6. Firefighter's tool : AXE 7. Resort city that shares its name with a Duran Duran hit : RIO 8. Did not disturb : LEFTBE 9. Rapper Shakur : TUPAC 10. "Little" '60s singer : EVA 11. Hosiery shade : NUDE 12. Third baseman Rodriguez : ALEX 13. Schooner part : MAST 19. Pirate's domain : SEA 21. Plan : SCHEDULE 25. Mil. plane's boosted launch : JATO 26. Discarded: Var. : SLUFFED 27. Setting for TV's "House" : HOSPITAL 29. War god on Olympus : ARES 30. Muddy area : MIRE 32. Actress Hagen : UTA 33. Jiffy : SEC 34. "Naughty!" : TSK 36. Often-misused pronoun : WHOM 37. Prefix with space : AERO 38. Murphy's is well known : LAW 39. Period to remember : ERA 40. Gmail alternative : AOL 41. Microscopic : TINY 45. Area connected to a kennel : DOGRUN 46. Computer user's shortcut : HOTKEY 47. Conundrum : ENIGMA 48. Adidas competitor : REEBOK 50. It merged with Exxon : MOBIL 51. "What's shakin', ___?" : BRO 53. Skunk River city : AMES 54. Categorical imperative philosopher : KANT 55. Guthrie who sang about Alice : ARLO 57. Opposite of bueno : MALO 58. "Mockingbird" singer Foxx, 1963 : INEZ 60. Southeast Asian language : LAO 61. Oklahoma native : OTO 62. Prefix with afternoon : MID