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ACROSS1 -- -carotene 5 Twice-baked bread 9 Type of prof 13 Cut drastically 15 Baha'i origin 16 Heredity factor 17 Strong silent type? 18 Anka's "Eso --" 19 Mortgage, e.g. 20 Explosive letters 21 "-- -Dick" 23 Replicated 25 Pierre's parent 26 Barbecue spit 27 Thought well of 30 Familiar digit 31 Mattress parts 32 Plain (hyph.) 37 Long-gone bird 38 Bundle of grain 40 Perfume bottle 41 Review 43 Fictional swordsman 44 Grooved on 45 Travesty 47 Mays or Nelson 50 Counting-rhyme start 51 Guest 52 Ankle-length 53 "GWTW" studio 56 Director -- Kazan 57 Docs prescribe them 59 Really skimping 61 Mild Dutch cheese 62 Failing that 63 Improve the road 64 Baking ingredient 65 Did Easter eggs 66 Hedge shrubs
DOWN 1 Cellar, briefly 2 Gusto 3 Diplomat's forte 4 Coal residue 5 Teased 6 Heavy hydrogen discoverer 7 Nordic airline 8 Quit for the day (2 wds.) 9 Softly lit 10 Trawler net 11 Look of disdain 12 Take care of 14 Four-baggers 22 Smelter supply 24 Ogle 25 Sitcom demo 26 Ancient colonnade 27 "Who Made Who" rockers 28 Slammer? 29 Knee concealer 32 Social Register word 33 Tusks 34 Milan money, once 35 Old pantry supply 36 -- -eyed 38 Wriggled 39 As a fly to a gnat 42 Not in use 43 More goofy 45 Stopped 46 Jinx 47 Ralph -- Emerson 48 Epic of Troy 49 Andes toter 51 Average grades 52 Inventory wd. 53 Plant parasite 54 Emulate a rat 55 Execs 58 Culbertson of bridge 60 Sardine-can opener
