ACROSS

1. Sci-fi fliers

5. Valuable violin

10. Toasting interjection

14. Dover specialty

15. “Un Ballo in Maschera” aria

16. Mid-2nd-century date

17. Person reared in a large city

18. Update the arsenal

19. Sage, for one

20. Obligation

23. Nevertheless

24. Birthplace of Columbus

25. Ride, so to speak

29. Take off

32. NASDAQ debuts

33. Chilled soup

34. It's about 350 miles NW of LAX

37. WATCH CLOSELY

41. “All My __ Live in Texas”: George Strait song

42. Cape Cod town

43. Female friend, in France

44. Lasting a short time

45. Kind of price

47. Japanese-American

50. ___ Cologne (skunk of cartoons)

51. California Governator in the news

58. Antitoxins

59. Tyrolean refrain

60. Alimony receivers

62. Cabinet dept.

63. Record of one year

64. Film-rating org.

65. Superior, e.g.

66. Football Hall-of-Famer Greasy ___

67. Auctioneer's cry

DOWN

1. Currency exchange board abbr.

2. Lou Gehrig, on the diamond

3. Word on a shoppe sign

4. Views

5. Resembling serum

6. 16th-century council site

7. Spanish river

8. Longfellow bell town

9. Stupid

10. Lug

11. “Primary Colors” author

12. ___-ground missile

13. Republic in N Africa

21. “Sesame Street” sta.

22. “Enough!”

25. Snap request

26. Culmination

27. Small deer

28. Nile viper

29. Muffler

30. “Comin' __ the Rye”

31. Emulate Vanilla Ice

33. “Leaving Las Vegas” costar

34. Formal introduction

35. Lunge

36. A hundred sawbucks

38. Ruins of Pompeii sights

39. Lanka lead-in

40. Jabber

44. Be wary of

45. Nutrition author Davis

46. ___ file (identifying text at the end of some e-mails)

47. NBA Hall of Famer Dan

48. Long operatic solo

49. Movie ogre

50. Hoopster Shaq

52. Tom Clancy hero

53. Kind of defense

54. “Giant” author Ferber

55. Precious stones

56. Really big show

57. Down-to-earth

61. Bummed

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