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ACROSS 1 Muscular jerk 6 Wingtip- towingtip figure 10 Yorick’s skull or Hamlet’s sword 14 Shiver- inducing 15 Numbermatching game 16 Feb. 14 sentiment 17 Skybox locale 18 Deep- voiced songstress 19 “I’m with you, brother!” 20 Scarf maker’s buy 23 See the point of 26 Stag’s harem 27 Like a lace handkerchief 28 39- Across component 30 We all have one 31 Attic or penthouse 34 Org. with a DoctorFinder webpage 37 Destines to fail 38 Xbox rival 39 Quasimodo’s request 41 Braying beast 42 Bogart or Bacall 44 Chef’s pinch 46 Discomforting feeling 47 Petroleum refinery byproduct 50 Bit of bickering 52 Supply a staff for 53 Couple’s banking arrangement 56 Colleague of Agatha and Dashiell 57 Graceless sort 58 Word before renewal or sprawl 62 No- goodniks 63 Quite often 64 Pageant winner’s wear 65 “Be ___ as it may . . .” 66 Generational differences 67 Needing a rinse DOWN 1 Neptune’s realm 2 ___ capita 3 Exist as a group 4 Spot for dirty dishes 5 Gads about 6 Compete in roller derby 7 Clobbers with snowballs 8 Side voting 61- Down 9 Lunch period, for many 10 Ilsa’s request to Sam 11 England’s ___ Baths 12 In plain view 13 Piggy bank deposit 21 Bits in cyclotrons 22 Wild time, slangily 23 Mild Dutch cheese 24 Team that became the Nationals 25 Proofreaders’ finds 29 Sparkling fielding play 30 Straitlaced 32 Buffoon, to a Brit 33 Squeak squelcher 34 First- stringers 35 Brainiacs’ organization 36 Cosmetician Elizabeth 39 Flipped out 40 Scotch aficionado’s concern 42 Shoddy hotel 43 Party with poi and roast pig 44 Least loony 45 Queen’s six- legged subject 47 Give the boot to 48 Synagogue scroll 49 Comics witch Broom-___ 50 Hot news tip 51 Cities with docks 54 Burger- and- fries go- with 55 Rock’s Cream or ZZ Top 59 Ram’s remark 60 Dada pioneer Jean 61 Opposing vote