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Across
1. Sometimes, they’re not given
6. Burro, e.g.
9. Oscar’s U.K. equivalent
14. Straight: Prefix
15. Word after good or bad
16. Domains
17. “___ In” (Wings hit that begins with “Someone’s knockin’ at the door”)
18. Sugary drink, often
19. Carl ___, whose September 2015 endorsement of fellow billionaire 58-Across was a “no-brainer”
20. Adjective that does not begin to describe 58-Across
23. McCorvey in a landmark case
24. Pay back?
25. Paddle-wheel craft
27. 58-Across inveighing against the IRS?
32. Apprentice, like 58-Across at electoral politics
33. Woman who raised Cain
34. Universal soul, in Hinduism
36. Acts the rat
39. Lawless princess?
41. “___, Marissa Mayer Are Right; Employees Should Not Work From Home” (February 2013 tweet by 58-Across)
43. Centerfielder on Mets World Series team
44. “58-Across is The World’s Greatest ___” (FiveThirtyEight headline, July 2015)
46. Flag-waving, breast-beating “patriot,” like 58-Across
48. Expanded, contracted
49. Carillon clamor
51. Scottish castle that 58-Across is unlikely to be invited to
53. Domains
56. “Ich bin ___ Berliner”
57. LBJ’s palindromic “War on Poverty” agcy.
58. DAMN TURD POL, anagramatically
64. One of three people walking into a bar, in many a joke
66. “Four score and seven years ___ …”
67. Word before basin or wave
68. Heavenly hunter
69. Try to become President, e.g.
70. Low-budget, in adspeak
71. “Schlonged,” e.g.
72. It may be tapped
73. Reginald ___ (truck driver whose beating was broadcast live during the 1992 Los Angeles riots) An Embarrassment of Riches
Down
1. Burrow
2. State where, in 2016, armed militants dubbed Y’all Qaeda and Vanilla ISIS took over federal property: Abbr.
3. Palindromic Holy Roman Emperor
4. “58-Across and ___” (CNN politics headline, July 2015)
5. Home country of pirates that 58-Across vowed to wipe off the face of the earth
6. Berry high in anti-oxidants
7. Sugary drink, often
8. Builder’s plans, informally
9. “It’s a Wonderful Life” family
10. Great circle path, e.g.
11. Term coined in 1939 to describe a prominent political figure, that is appropriate again today
12. Literally, “big water”
13. Grant on TV
21. Smart
22. Co. founded by Alexander Graham Bell
26. “La donna è mobile,” e.g.
27. Modern callternative?
28. Profess
29. Underpinning of 58-Across’s foreign policy, apparently
30. Key of Vivaldi’s “Spring Concerto”
31. Mumbai master
35. Hendryx who sang “Lady Marmalade” with Labelle
37. Rowlands of “A Woman Under the Influence”
38. Pitch
40. On the quiet side
42. Looked over, lasciviously
45. Activity for porkbarrel politicians
47. Missing
50. Durocher who said “Nice guys finish last”
52. Way to serve some Mexican food
53. Palindromic billionaire who blasted
58-Across and Ted Cruz as 11-Downs (December 2015)
54. Unit of wisdom?
55. 58-Across’s debate strategy, apparently
59. Malarial fever
60. ___-windedness, a salient feature of 58-Across
61. Japanese soup noodles
62. American politician/educational reformer Horace ___
63. Sneaky maneuver
65. Word said once in France to mean “good” or twice in the U.S. to mean “goodie”