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        "35": "[LOL]",
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        "43": "\"You wouldn't believe it if I told you\"",
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        "50": "Sour",
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        "58": "Panache",
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        "60": "School attended by princes William and Harry",
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        "2": "Charged",
        "3": "Filmmaker Von Stroheim",
        "4": "Theme of this puzzle",
        "5": "Without ___ (riskily)",
        "6": "It may be wrinkled",
        "7": "Ancient Semitic fertility goddess",
        "8": "Bakery employee",
        "9": "Elvis Presley's \"___ Not You\"",
        "10": "Detective's need",
        "11": "Like some six-packs",
        "12": "See 32-Down",
        "13": "Vile smile",
        "21": "That, to Tom\u00c3\u00a1s",
        "26": "Home of \"The Last Supper\"",
        "27": "Place for picnicking and dog-walking",
        "28": "Hill dwellers",
        "29": "___ alla genovese (sauce)",
        "30": "City where 32- and 12-Down is found",
        "31": "Also sends to, as an e-mail",
        "32": "With 12-Down, locale of the 4-Down",
        "33": "\"Ishtar\" director",
        "35": "You might give a speech by this",
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        "47": "\"That mad game the world so loves to play,\" to Jonathan Swift",
        "48": "___ ready",
        "50": "Peter out",
        "51": "It's often unaccounted for",
        "52": "Allen in American history",
        "54": "All ___",
        "55": "Lynn who sang \"We'll Meet Again\"",
        "56": "Port near the Red Sea",
        "57": "Yellow squirt?",
        "58": "Pie chart figs.",
        "59": "\"Wishing won't make ___\""
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        "10": "They might be chocolate",
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        "15": "Request at a laundry",
        "16": "Like some keys",
        "17": "Dye plant",
        "18": "Popular women's fragrance",
        "19": "Together, in music",
        "20": "Makes people offers they can't refuse?",
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        "23": "Set of values",
        "24": "View from Marseille",
        "25": "Relatives, slangily",
        "27": "You might end up with a bum one",
        "30": "Actress Tyler",
        "31": "Child, for one",
        "34": "Adler who outwitted Sherlock Holmes",
        "36": "___ impulse",
        "38": "___ + grenadine + maraschino cherry = Roy Rogers cocktail",
        "39": "Illumination of manuscripts, and others",
        "40": "Headline-making illness of 2002-03",
        "41": "Dis",
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        "46": "Retain",
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        "53": "___ pop, music genre since the 1980s",
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        "65": "James of jazz",
        "66": "Competitor of Ben &amp; Jerry's",
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