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ACROSS

1. Two tablets twice a day, say

5. Admit doing, slangily (3,2)

10. Spice amounts, often: Abbr.

14. Like burned music (2,2)

15. “___ you loud and clear!” (1,4)

16. Dip ___ in (test before swimming) (1,3)

17. Ice cream brand with a made-up, Danish-sounding name (6-4)

19. Canapé cheese spread

20. Don yesterday’s duds

21. Lost companion?

22. Enclosure for an RSVP: Abbr.

24. “Wuthering Heights” writer (5,6)

27. Contestant who came up short (4-3)

29. Either you ___ (one of us) (2,1)

30. Wander willy-nilly, with “about”

31. Two squared

32. Butler played by Clark Gable

34. Former name of the Congo (8,2,5)

41. Flies high

42. Like a “sudden death” game, briefly (2,2)

43. Maximum, for short

46. “... had to ___ don’t know, she wouldn’t say” (“Yesterday” lyric) (2,1)

47. Like many rural roads (3,4)

50. One-sided band formed with a twist, as Meta’s logo (6,5)

53. Rapper who dissed Jay Z

54. Froot ___

55. Pond or sand trap, in golf

57. Former CBC radio host ___ Maria Tremonti

58. Trumpet’s cousin from Austria

62. One-eighties on the road

63. Prepare to see the sites? (3,2)

64. Cousin’s mom

65. Danson and Knight

66. Plates and frisbees, e.g.

67. School fundraising groups: Abbr.

DOWN

1. Homer’s “I’m such an idiot!”

2. Words before “roll” or “whim” (2,1)

3. Scrounges together (6,2)

4. Slight advantage

5. The movies, formally

6. Inaugurate, as a priest

7. Pink ___ (eraser brand)

8. Looney Tunes “devil,” for short

9. Needs Naloxone, for short

10. Hasbro’s “Game of Unspeakable Fun”

11. High-___ (intense)

12. Place to start (5,1)

13. Began, as a new crop

18. Wide-mouthed pitcher

21. On the ___ (gone kerflooey)

22. Mandela’s land: Abbr. (1,3)

23. Natural burn remedy

25. B.C. national park, from the Cree word for “awe”

26. Not lasting long, in Longueuil

28. “Them ___” (Frank Zappa album) (2,2)

32. Mounties, for short

33. It may be prehensile

35. Utterly fake

36. Landlocked Asian land

37. Coloured eye part

38. Just there for a quick hi, say (2-3-3)

39. Home improvement retailer

40. Seasons in “le soleil”

43. Double-dot mark often seen atop the circled letters in 17-, 24-, 34-, 50- and 58-Across

44. Canadian buck

45. Crashed into broadside (1-5)

47. Very unfortunate

48. Withers with age

49. Milky gem

51. “No bet here,” in poker (1,4)

52. Street rougher-uppers

56. Gershwin piece “in Blue”: Abbr.

58. Grassy sports area: Abbr.

59. Québec law?

60. Genetic “messenger”

61. P.M. periods: Abbr.