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36. Paycheck deduction that goes towards Medicare
Across 1. Bigger than big
38. Mayhem exemplified
5. Nob Hill squad 13. Sports center 15. Cookie that comes in a gingerbread flavor for the holidays 16. Light carriage 17. Leftovers in a Jamba Juice compost bin 18. Ingredient in some muffins
43. “ZOMG! BEQ just made a grunge reference!” 44. Russian city on the Oka 45. Caustic cleaner 46. Rock group with slash as a member? 48. Gothenburg guy, e.g. 50. “Great British Baking Show” contestant, at times
20. Classic dog name 21. Here, in Amiens
54. Succeed
23. 1954 Bogart role
56. Healthy morsel in breakfast cereal
24. Where you might roast peppers
58. Bêtes noires
28. Crowned? 30. Thing to be sold
60. Prefix used with many schools of thought
31. Group going back to Temple
61. [We’re not sure, check back later]
33. ___ doble
62. It features busy people
34. Intention
65. See 42-Down
26. Winter warmer
1. Meat of the bone
27. Early immunologist ___ von Behring
2. City that’s a 90-minute drive from Buffalo, NY
29. Head in the Tube 32. Having three unequal sides
3. One who grew up making mixtapes
35. Midori in skates
4. “Before I forget ...”
37. Even a little bit
5. Willing to mingle
39. Tropical hardwood of Central America
6. To and ___
40. Doddering fools
7. Comparative word
41. Beginner, in slang
8. Rum brand named after a Cervantes character
42. With 65-Across, musical collaborator with Eric Idle on “The Rutles” and Monty Python
43. Internet problem
49. More like some memes and basements 51. Burmese intoxicant 52. Anita of “La Dolce Vita” 53. Body of water bordered by six countries 55. Clipping caller
47. Is unable to
57. Law that allows access to govt. documents
59. Liquid spill 62. Tillis in the Grand Ole Opry 63. Paul’s “The Shrink Next Door” character
64. Org. that helped popularize abstract art during the cold war
66. Sports league that’s in the center of this puzzle’s theme answers
Down
25. Well organized
22. Raises a fuss
72. Swingers grp. for women
19. It puts PETA in a pet
71. Still-life fruit
10. My Bloody Valentine’s genre
14. “Like that’s going to happen”
9. Completely out of it
12. Homs home: Abbr.
70. 99%, say
68. “The Grapes of Wrath” drifter 69. Burning
39. Grunge outfit
9. Biting snakes
11. First foreign-born player to the NBA Rookie of hte Year
67. Voice in the choir
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