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 ACROSS

  1 Requests

  5 Six-point NFL plays

  8 Warning by a lewd link

 12 Not a soul

 14 Sizzling

 15 "Holy Toledo!"

 16 Committee type

 17 Misspeak, for example

 18 Photo

 19 Person whose anthem may be "Born on the Bayou"?

 22 Person whose anthem may be "Born To Run"?

 23 Mile divisions: Abbr.

 24 Cartoon cat

 25 Bossa nova's Brazilian birthplace, briefly

 28 Word after "midnight" or "mineral"

 30 Two-___ (cheap)

 31 Song selectors

 34 Person whose anthem may be "Born Under a Bad Sign"?

 38 British texter's signoff

 39 More, in Monterrey

 40 Big bass brass

 41 One with a guest list

 42 Class where srs. may read "Beloved"

 44 Site for selling collectibles

 45 Person whose anthem may be "Born To Be Wild"?

 48 Author Lee

 50 Hug it out, say

 53 ___ by Yoplait (French-style yogurt)

 54 Enters slowly

 58 Garten on the Food Network

 59 Decorative vase

 60 Portrait painter's session

 61 Little housebuilder in a fairy tale

 62 Old cloth

 63 Make bigger

 64 Chowed down


DOWN

  1 Orange County's Santa ___

  2 Lawn starter

  3 JCPenney alternative

  4 Hoity-toity

  5 "If ___ walls could talk ..."

  6 Sportscaster Burke

  7 Unsafe material for a 61-Across

  8 Polite refusal

  9 Proust protagonist with a birdlike name

 10 Small, seedy fruit

 11 Teensy

 13 Galapagos Islands' country

 15 Device for some virtual bowling

 20 Ice cream sandwich brand

 21 Untagged at recess

 25 Pioneering sculptor Asawa or justice Bader Ginsburg

 26 Crushing on

 27 Progeny

 29 Like a bad mattress, perhaps

 30 Washbowl

 31 Seriously hoppy brew

 32 South Sudan's capital

 33 Kill it, to a drag queen

 35 How a 31-Down might be offered

 36 Simba's love

 37 Meat served with eggs or frites

 42 Subway in a Duke Ellington song

 43 Key to comic delivery

 46 Witherspoon of "Big Little Lies"

 47 Dog's skin woe

 48 Typical length of a TV drama

 49 Vibe

 51 Word in an apartment address

 52 Book part

 55 Mo. airport

 56 Airport landing stat

 57 Son of Beyonce whose name is a title

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