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Crossword clues, hints, and answers

Across

  1. 1. Take over — Answer: ADOPT
  2. 6. Engage in magniloquence — Answer: BRAG
  3. 10. A double might get you some, for short — Answer: RBIS
  4. 14. Fly me to the moon! — Answer: LUNARPROBE
  5. 16. Actress Chaplin — Answer: OONA
  6. 17. Ancient creepy-crawlies — Answer: TRILOBITES
  7. 18. It "smiles on the frowning night," in "Romeo and Juliet" — Answer: MORN
  8. 19. ___ milk — Answer: OAT. Hint: Think of the creamy, plant-based milk that baristas often steam for lattes. 🥛
  9. 20. ___ Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII — Answer: JANE
  10. 21. Added (on) — Answer: TACKED
  11. 23. One of four for a bat or a cat — Answer: FANG
  12. 24. "Moulin Rouge" co-star, 1952 — Answer: GABOR
  13. 25. Not with it — Answer: BEHINDTHETIMES
  14. 30. With (it) — Answer: INON
  15. 31. In tandem — Answer: JOINED
  16. 32. Way out in space — Answer: POD
  17. 34. Biker role in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" — Answer: EDDIE
  18. 36. Pull-up target, for short — Answer: LAT
  19. 37. Let it all out, in a way — Answer: EMOTE
  20. 39. Nutmeg-flavored quaff, informally — Answer: NOG
  21. 40. Ribbed silk material — Answer: FAILLE
  22. 43. The "A" in STEAM — Answer: ARTS
  23. 44. "I, personally, wouldn't boast about that" — Answer: WEIRDFLEXBUTOK
  24. 47. Bring the receipts for, as they say — Answer: PROVE
  25. 48. Figs. on a 4-point scale — Answer: GPAS
  26. 49. Tennis star Stephens who won the 2017 U.S. Open — Answer: SLOANE
  27. 51. Berth place — Answer: PIER
  28. 52. A.L. East team, on scoreboards — Answer: BOS
  29. 55. Car whose name means "listen" in Latin — Answer: AUDI
  30. 56. Ordered clubs, for example — Answer: ROYALFLUSH
  31. 59. Quickly assembles, with "up" — Answer: RIGS
  32. 60. Frees — Answer: TURNSLOOSE
  33. 61. "Gotcha" — Answer: ISEE. Hint: This brief reply shows that you understand. 👀
  34. 62. Editor's marking — Answer: STET
  35. 63. According to experiments, they can't "sleep" in space — Answer: YOYOS

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  1. 1. Lead-in to stratus or cumulus — Answer: ALTO
  2. 2. ___ mater (brain protector) — Answer: DURA
  3. 3. Handling things — Answer: ONIT
  4. 4. Bud — Answer: PAL. Hint: Think of a casual word for a friend. 🤝
  5. 5. Memorial Coliseum athlete — Answer: TROJAN
  6. 6. Provide that crucial spark for — Answer: BRINGTOLIFE
  7. 7. You may have learned your times tables by it — Answer: ROTE
  8. 8. Fin — Answer: ABE
  9. 9. Develop over time — Answer: GESTATE
  10. 10. "50 First Dates" or "(500) Days of Summer" — Answer: ROMCOM
  11. 11. Reader's digest — Answer: BOOKREPORT
  12. 12. Concerning — Answer: INRE
  13. 13. It might be picked up from a trip to the beach — Answer: SAND
  14. 15. Classic lunchbox staple, informally — Answer: PBANDJ
  15. 22. Tolerate — Answer: ABIDE. Hint: Think of a calm way to put up with something you dislike. 😌
  16. 23. Done: Fr. — Answer: FINI
  17. 24. Big ol' teddy bear — Answer: GENTLEGIANT
  18. 25. Word of approval, in French and Spanish — Answer: BIEN
  19. 26. Finance — Answer: ENDOW
  20. 27. A little of this, a little of that — Answer: HODGEPODGE
  21. 28. Salutation for a mass email — Answer: HIALL
  22. 29. Lower than, on a score — Answer: SOTTO
  23. 33. Learning center? — Answer: DESK
  24. 35. Zac of "The Iron Claw" — Answer: EFRON
  25. 38. Pulitzer-winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman — Answer: MAUS
  26. 41. British spots — Answer: ADVERTS
  27. 42. Throws out — Answer: EXPELS
  28. 45. Declaration that might come from a bluffer — Answer: IRAISE
  29. 46. Spirited sort? — Answer: BARFLY
  30. 49. Wrapped dress — Answer: SARI
  31. 50. Author Jorge ___ Borges — Answer: LUIS
  32. 51. Apt rhyme for fire — Answer: PYRE
  33. 52. Object marked with the speed limit, sometimes — Answer: BUOY
  34. 53. Word in an Italian veal dish — Answer: OSSO
  35. 54. "___ the Man" (2006 film inspired by "Twelfth Night") — Answer: SHES
  36. 57. On the newsstand, say — Answer: OUT
  37. 58. John — Answer: LOO

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