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Across

1. It was first heard at the court of Louis XIV
5. Totally uncool person
9. Makes an IPA
14. Actor with a noted 1939 role
15. Comfy feeling
16. Got the flame back up
17. Reporter killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945
19. Island just north of Formentera
20. Japanese restaurant freebie
21. Tough one
22. Brainiest member of the House, according to "Washingtonian" magazine
24. Alexander or Alexandra, for short
28. Leaky tire sound
29. Agatha Christie title word
31. Noted California magistrate
32. Main soup ingredient, sometimes
35. Theme of this puzzle
39. American Samoa's shadow congressman ___ Faleomavaega
40. Barbara, to Jeb
41. They're seen in photo-ops
42. Way off the interstate
44. Like helium
45. Kosovo, Gaza, or Chechnya
51. Double drums
52. Part of a punk rocker's getup
57. James Thurber and E.B. White book "___ Necessary?"
58. City home to the world's most famous mausoleum
59. NPR's Hansen
60. A kid's may be signed
61. Unlikely track winners
62. Barker and Luthor
63. Artist in the Blaue Reiter group
64. Goes downhill

Down
1. Rurik's successor
2. One of Bush 41's attorneys general
3. Opposite of "mit," in German
4. County of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
5. Nostril separators
6. Single-___ system (health care plan)
7. Chechen Pres. Maskhadov
8. Zuider or Tappan follower
9. Underwear choice
10. Blocks newly
11. "Clueless" actress Donovan
12. Dry up
13. Betsy or Lisa of ABC News
18. With all judges present
21. Mike and Cicely
23. ___ noche (tonight)
24. Florida mecca for fashion models, for short
25. Make ___ for it
26. Assertive Assisi assent
27. Reaganesque laugh
30. Sri Lankan minority
31. Intellectual's ending
32. Marie Curie, e.g.
33. Hungarian city known for its "Bull's Blood" wine
34. Abbr. in many govt. job titles
36. Schlep
37. One of Ivan the Terrible's sons
38. Hubbub
42. City on the Willamette River
43. People play "Tao Feng" on them
45. It matures in a year or less
46. Former colleague of Oprah
47. Like Coltrane, usually
48. "Washington Post" writer David
49. Do grammatical work
50. Stump
53. London's ___ of Court
54. Byron Dorgan's state: abbr.
55. Best Picture winner of 1958
56. Flirt with getting grounded
58. Machine gun sound

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