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1 Ethnicity of Lewis Tewanima, who won Silver for the United States in the 10K race in the 1912 Olympics
5 Like Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire”
10 It’s worn around the neck
13 Library cubicle with a desk
15 People having innate gifts or talents for particular tasks or activities
17 What MLB teams and fans could count on Rickey Henderson to do
19 High levels of it might suggest renal failure; low levels, pregnancy or a diet low in protein
20 “I kept you on another six months, but I ___ ___ ___ in your productivity, so I have to let you go.”
22 Alex Karras and Alan Page, to name just two great ones in the NFL
24 Horses with a coat of a main color mixed heavily with another color
25 Your response when you solve this puzzle?
27 Firm to the bite: al ___
28 Curved about an axis or center
31 What a toddler’s mom or dad might do repeatedly on Christmas morning? (3 wds)
34 Scald
35 Protein made from cow or pig collagen
36 “Please help me. For this crossword I need to know the AOU code for mourning dove.” “___ ___.”
39 Second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus
40 What one might do at an altar (or after a divorce)?
41 Ordinary or bare
42 The ___ and Mrs. Muir, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison supernatural romantic fantasy flick of 1947
44 About 45˚ to a geocacher
45 Members of Sus scrofa to us
47 One hundredth of a dollar (Brunei), riel (Cambodia), rupiah (Indonesia), ringgit (Malaysia) or gov. body (USA)
48 Be a little embarrassed (3 wds)
54 What the athlete in 17A and the Ford GT and Shelby GT500 were
55 What you might need to do for a really fresh cup of coffee (2 wds)
58 Forced
60 Soft fabric
61 Edward Snowden’s former employer (which probably engages in so-called geofencing)
62 Past, present and future
63 Earth
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1 Hormone produced by the placenta that helps regulate a pregnant person’s metabolism (abbr)
2 Type of meal?
3 With the, the entity to whom Snowden revealed thousands of classified documents in June 2013
4 Deus ___, 1976 post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
5 First name of the actor who gained fame as Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce
6 How Yankee Doodle went to town
7 Afghan singer Parsa, who continued his career in Germany to escape his war-torn country; he was killed after performing a Mother’s Day concert in Vancouver when a 19-year-old fan knocked him down concrete stairs
8 The Robot ___ Me’s “Apricot Tea” includes the line “Will you be the ___ that smiles for me”
9 Its atomic no. is 71
10 Unadorned
11 Bravos
12 In his eulogy of acclaimed photographer Ranjith Kally, published 21 June 2017, Kalim Rajab wrote: “Ranjith, I shall miss you tremendously. I loved you ___ ___ ___ to a father.”
14 Type of sch.—or abbr. for a series starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu as Holmes and Watson
16 Karel Čapek play of 1920 which introduced robot to the English language and to sci-fi
18 Dealt with (2 wds)
21 Fifth note in C major and seventh of twenty-six
22 Informal or friendly slang term for a male friend
23 Purloin
26 Maxim
27 Ratio involving earnings and obligations
28 Spice from red berries of a plant not to be confused with Toxicodendron vernix
29 Briefly, Manitoba or Alberta
30 Ruined
32 Willie Mays but not Cal Ripken, Jr.
33 Andy’s friend always responded to my “How are you, Alphonso?” with “One day ___ ___ time.”
34 Ta?
36 “Professor, if you want him to be paid, I’m gonna have to have your ___ ___.”
37 Rocket Companies, Inc on the NYSE
38 Wilson who earned an Academy Award nomination for co-writing The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
40 What you sometimes have to produce even after showing your driver’s license?
41 Word after bran or English
42 Resource you might consult for some of the answers to this puzzle
43 Hillside town and headquarters of the West Karbi Anglong district in India’s Assam, on the Kopili River
45 Abbr. for nonsense—or for the portrayal of women as morally pure, caring, but weak and dependent
46 ___ San Lucas, southeast of Rancho San Cristóbal, Mexico
47 Intl. military alliance formed in 1954 to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia
49 Program aimed to give patients with life-threatening conditions early access to medicines that show signs of having major advantages over existing therapeutics
50 Leader in spas and skincare products founded by Susan Harmsworth in 1993 and acquired by The Hut Group
51 Foundation of the 5G mobile network
52 Short for stitches halfway between a single crochet and a double crochet
53 Tom Seaver, Darryl Strawberry, and Mike Piazza
56 Key measure of a real estate investment’s profitability, briefly
57 Dana Carvey missed its 50th anniversary celebration because of the flu
59 In the military, letters after 1st or 2nd or before (somewhat strangely) Gen.
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