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1 Eye-cream targets
5 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Squirrel
Nut Zippers, e.g.
15 Biblical figure for whom Aron Trask is
an allegory, in “East of Eden”
16 Avid reader of Derrida, Spivak, Irigaray,
and the like
17 Ta x
18 They’re Sirius business?
19 Simile center
20 Words before “Easy” in a Linda
Ronstadt title and “Hard” in a John
Lennon title
21 Exalts
23 Abu Dhabi, for one
29 Certain economic deficits
31 Rock bottom
32 Michael in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame
33 Subject of the 2019 docuseries subtitled
“Of Mics and Men,” to fans
34 Inexplicable, irreparable turnoff, with
“the”
37 Stayed in shape
39 Tenor role in the opera “Nixon in
China”
40 Nineties action thriller with the tagline
“They were deadly on the ground. Now
they have wings”
42 Diogenes, notably
44 Lemon juice and vinegar, e.g.
45 Phrase at the end of a dashed-off e-mail
49 1887 French play that inspired a Puccini
opera
51 Raise
52 Norwegian king who led a campaign to
convert the Vikings to Christianity
54 Sources of some lean red meat
55 Hints at
60 Fabricated
61 Public intellectual with cameos in “The
Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix
Revolutions”
62 Chrysler Building architect William
Van ___
63 Techniques for a yo-yoer?
64 Platform for tweets?
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1 Kitsch, e.g.
2 Exploitative type
3 Pass with flying colors
4 Subtle acknowledgments
5 Less voluminous, as hair
6 Twenty-two-billion-dollar Facebook
purchase in 2014
7 Roadside dangers in war zones, for short
8 Snap, crackle, and pop
9 One with a stable job?
10 Fly-___ (close aerial passes)
11 Response to a doctor’s request, perhaps
12 Liberal or conservative leader?
13 Cousin of a crow
14 Sixties campus-activism org. revived in
2006
22 Gift from a golden retriever, maybe
24 Without function
25 ___ race
26 Father of 15-Across
27 Talking Heads bassist Weymouth
28 Part of a Cartesian declaration
30 ___ Park, home stadium of the San
Diego Padres
33 References with white pages?
34 Erstwhile Mac scheduling app
35 Andean crop
36 Furrow
38 Notorious 2017 scam chronicled in two
2019 documentaries, familiarly
41 Fracas43 Alley Oop or Fred Flintstone
45 Neighbor of Mozambique and Tanzania
46 Dish containing masa
47 Practice pieces
48 Take exception to
50 “___ You Be Loved” (Bob Marley song)
53 Perfectly, after “to”
55 Justice org. headquartered in The Hague
56 Conjunction repeated in an unofficial
Postal Service motto
57 Mujer who’s married: Abbr.
58 Networking assets
59 Government agcy. that sponsors the
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