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1.Fantasy sports transactions6 letters 7.Looked after a Manx or Munchkin6 letters 13."The Joy of Cooking" is full of them7 letters 15.Set to full blast6 letters 16.Go too far8 letters 18.Device for playing the Guess Who6 letters 19.Ye ___ Shoppe4 letters 20.Roof support6 letters 22.Luau finger food3 letters 23.Apparel4 letters 24.Email subject line abbr.4 letters 28.Germ killer in a bottle (In this answer, note letters 7 and 9-11)15 letters 33.Indian megacity5 letters 34.Easy twos in basketball6 letters 35.Nimble5 letters 38.Bread softer than paratha4 letters 40.Observe3 letters 41.Five good reasons, maybe (... letters 7 and 9-10)14 letters 45.Antlered animal3 letters 46.Tame Impala's "The ___ I Know the Better"4 letters 47.Fall Out Boy genre3 letters 48.___ kebab5 letters 50.___ wrench (hex key)5 letters 52.The Flood and the like (... letters 7 and 9-12)12 letters 56.Oil ritualistically6 letters 57.Land-dwelling turtle8 letters 61.Wall-mounted light fixture6 letters 62.Big name in baby grands8 letters 63.Item in a closet6 letters 64.IRS ID3 letters 65.Have debts3 letters

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1.Koopa ___ (shelled Super Mario character)6 letters 2.Maybe it's Maybelline ... nope, it's a competitor!6 letters 3.Crushed the test6 letters 4."Walk of Life" band ___ Straits4 letters 5.They spin longer than singles3 letters 6.Where "Back to one!" is called3 letters 7.___ of doing business4 letters 8.Poker stake4 letters 9.___ dog (emotional support pooch)7 letters 10.Title for Isaac Newton3 letters 11.Grow up3 letters 12."But" text?3 letters 14.Higher-order angel6 letters 17.Lines for the exit? ... or what this answer is doing to hidden words in 28-, 41- and 52-Across12 letters 21."Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" org.3 letters 23.Comfy insole substance3 letters 25."Take my word for it"7 letters 26.Mounts with a sticky 3M roll7 letters 27.Wall St. market4 letters 29.Sri Lankan rice cake4 letters 30.The stone in stone fruits4 letters 31.Bivalve in some chowders4 letters 32.Not crazy4 letters 35.NYC st. crosser3 letters 36.___ pal3 letters 37.Variety3 letters 39.Olympic code Down Under3 letters 42.One of the biggest stars on the planet7 letters 43.Snooze4 letters 44.Nobelist Mandela6 letters 48.Treatment for a broken radius5 letters 49.Ergo5 letters 50.Buenos ___5 letters 51.Allow to enter5 letters 52.Diss big-time4 letters 53.Early Peruvian worshipper of Viracocha4 letters 54.Godsend4 letters 55.Goes bad4 letters 58."Sands of ___ Jima" (1949 film)3 letters 59.Tree surgeon's tool3 letters 60.Window to the soul3 letters

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