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ACROSS
1 Precedes “Baker” and “Charlie”
5 It’s a long story
9 Mann or Gramm-Rudman
12 Bonne ____ (French good night)
13 Boors
14 Rock group for global health?
15 December ditty for aging Texas beauties?
18 Actress Turturro
20 Half an ancient weapon?
21 Waited on
22 Wired
23 Cinder
25 Joins the choir invisible
26 Butterfly McQueen role
27 Exhortation to all ye faithful
29 Comic actress Madeline
30 Santa avoids the south one
32 Book bag
36 Sound of a famous minister’s bell?
37 It breaks up before the party does
39 Pie or River
41 “In ____ arms is sleeping . . .”
42 Mr. or co-
43 Realm of Providence
44 Psalm word
45 Single Latina, for short
46 West Texas shepherd’s song? “____ Navidad”
48 It was grassy
49 Texas tree topper?
51 Suffix for Vi-?
52 Vaya con ____
53 Author of Riders to the Sea
56 Glues
59 “Get outta here,” country-style
60 Unit of speed (abbrev.)
63 Prefix for “theater”
64 It’s now Ho Chi Minh City
66 Age
68 Concern
69 Sunbather’s seasonal song?
72 Skater Babilonia
73 Goodwill toward men
74 Shamu, for one
75 Multipurpose motor transport
76 Precedes “la la la la la la la”
77 Cheers
DOWN
1 Mrs. Perry
2 Rancher’s refrain? “Jingle ____”
3 Tyler or Ullman
4 Summers on the Seine
5 What vamps get attached to?
6 Old “old”
7 Telecommunications giant
8 Foolish stable resident?
9 San Antonio tourist’s tune?
10 Salsa invaders
11 Ending for “nema-“
13 Bank
15 Alamo City, for short
16 Remodel
17 Almost overflow
19 Ending for “diction” or “caution”
22 Elizabeth, et al.
24 Nurses’ Noel number? (with “The”)
26 Joseph, to Jesus
28 Between Bees and Dees
29 ____, bar the door
30 Former grain of sand
31 Row toward
32 Unit of sea speed (abbrev.)
33 Undercover cop
34 Precedes “blind” or “fast”
35 Eucalyptus junkie
36 Cyclic sickness
37 Hurls at furs?
38 Thought
40 Puckish sports org.?
44 Heroin
46 Foreign service officers (abbrev.)
47 Long-running TV show
50 Four fifths of “Old MacDonald” chorus
53 Agleam
54 Mystical bear?
55 Katherine Anne Porter’s “____ Wine”
56 Prefix for “man” or “10”
57 Beloved, in Italian
58 He ate no fat
59 Anna or Gertrudis
61 Orchard owner’s wish? “Let there be ____ on earth”
62 Central American handicrafts
64 Soar
65 The Killing Fields actor
67 Dallas stylemaker, for short
69 Kindred spirit to 13 Across
70 State dr.’s grp.
71 Breastplate of sorts
