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Thanks to Butterfly_TeamBnB for noting a typo (TWO 12 downs!), which has been corrected.
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1 Agastache foeniculum, Helianthus annuus, and Baptisia australis
8 Guarantee—or a brand of nutritional drinks
13 Epps and Sharif
14 1/100 of a Georgian lari
15 With 18A, chain that began in Oklahoma City when David Green borrowed $600
16 My to Henri, sometimes
18 With 15A, chain that had $6.4 billion in sales in 2020—and won a SCOTUS decision in 2014
20 Shouldn’t be confused with fennel, licorice, and tarragon—but often is
21 High levels could indicate liver disease or bone disorders
22 Ted, who said of Donnie Campbell: “A fella from a small town in Kansas who spoke in those aphorisms, like, ‘Sudeikis, you look more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.’”
23 Coin-toss option in the NFL
25 Round, sometimes, like a nose
29 Corroborate
33 Oldest continuously independent state in the Arab world; its settlements date to 106K years ago
34 Ce qui vient souvent entre les et unis
36 “The Quietly Subversive Fictions of ___ Spiotta”
37 Title Avi Weiss bestowed upon Sara Hurwitz, who has impacted the roles deemed acceptable for modern Orthodox women
38 Letters you might see on a 911 built for competition rather than the street
39 Striped domestic cat which probably has what looks like an M on its forehead
40 Venezuelan pitcher Santana, who pitched the 1st no-hitter in Mets history and won 2 Cy Youngs
42 Blue Moon is such an ale
46 Connecticut town whose name is derived from the Pequot for a large river
51 Where you’ll find a word Humpty said meant “four o’clock in the afternoon—the time when you begin broiling things for dinner”
52 26th POTUS, who failed to win the Republican nom. in 1912, then founded the Progressive Party
53 Aide to a gumshoe, for short?
54 Nobuyuki, CEO of Sony until March 2005
57 Type of wren or hawk?
61 Key word of a George Thorogood and the Destroyers classic
64 Alliance formed in part because 36.5 million Europeans (19 million civilians) had died in WWII
65 Arkansan Willie, famous for “You Don’t Love Me”
66 Abates
67 Title word of 2008 film with two Eastwoods and Her
68 Where many learn of love, friendship, fate, free will, and honor through Achilles and Patroclus
69 If you have Tourette Syndrome you have at least three of these
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2 Mellifluous lake diver
3 Prefix meaning both
4 Collars
5 Obsolete spelling of a synonym for attempt
6 OASDI, less officially?
7 Ledge
8 Guillaume’s coordinate conjunction
9 Frail child in The Old Curiosity Shop
10 The ___ of Attalus in Athens
11 City, slangily
12 Some prefer Memphis style, some St. Louis (The Black Hog offers a special on them on Tuesdays)
15 Keep in one’s mind, especially secretly
16 Distinguished conductor of classical music
17 Classifications between two extreme or opposite points
19 Possibly perturbed English teacher’s reply to “Can I go to the bathroom?”
23 Dates soon-to-be mothers long for?
24 Radar operators, reconnaissance officers, and recruiting officers, for short
26 Sissy in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Fantine in Les Misérables
27 Where creations of Bunsen and Petri helped you learn
28 Newport’s Cliffside Inn or the Shenandoah Valley’s Meadowlark Ridge, briefly
30 Agency charged with ensuring the safety of the US food supply, cosmetics, and drugs
31 It attempts to preserve integrity within the NYPD
32 Music genre whose Queen was once Ruth Brown and star was Ray Charles
35 Possible outcome of a Delmarva suicide squeeze?
40 Leah’s practical-arrangement husband, for short, in a novel by Patricia Johns
41 Central nervous sys. disorder affecting the eyes and the spinal cord
42 Riley B. professionally (“Lucille!”) and a help in determining the solution to this puzzle?
43 Popular breakfast bev
44 With The, it succeeded Garrison’s The Liberator in 1865
45 Ted Danson’s character, briefly, in CSI and CSI: Cyber
47 Paid summer work program for youth under the auspices of NPS, USFS, USF&WS, and BLM
48 What might be discussed before two competitive skiers start back to the lodge?
49 Beanie Babies founder Warner
50 Stroke tenderly and affectionately
55 Independence-focused org. that denied membership in 1984 to Lena Lorraine Santos because she was Black, then reversed its position when its tax-exempt status was threatened
56 7th of 24
57 Older adult memory condition, perhaps, for short
58 It began as Control Video Corp. in 1983
59 US agcy. which supports entrepreneurs and assists in economic recovery after disasters
60 Heritable connective tissue disorder that affects joints and ligaments, briefly
62 Kimono-securer that can be twelve feet long for women, nine for men
63 Home of Seinfeld, Night Court, The Golden Girls, Cheers, and Bonanza
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