Mass. Communication

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Mass. Communication (*Overheard in Hahvahd Yahd)


Across

1 Texas city home to a famous standoff
5 Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet
10 Each
14 Modern Persia
15 Home of Caesar’s Palace
16 Need for plugging in a computer
17 *Golfer Woods actually not winning a tournament?
19 202 in Roman numerals
20 Power
21 ___ Kosh
23 Simple sneaker
24 Setting for some of “A Winter’s Tale”
28 Finale
29 George W.’s toilet?
34 “American ___” (popular show)
35 “Gloria in Excelsis ___”
36 It can be third-person or first-person: Abbr.
37 Formal wear
39 Listen (to)
43 Hospital locales, briefly
44 Teachers’ org.
45 Blues singer James
46 *Like someone with a water phobia?
51 Unkempt hair
52 Without a shirt
53 Yoko ___
54 Hydrocarbon suffix
55 Fox show whose theme song is “California”
60 Israeli guns
62 Mother fucking?
66 Number of muses
67 Total, as a tab
68 Make-up artist?
69 Head, in French
70 Go too fast
71 Throw spitballs at, say


Down

1 Smarts
2 Opera number
3 Wily
4 Change for a five
5 They’re now available in HD
6 “I’m not impressed”
7 “I” problem?
8 Toyota truck
9 Invites to enter
10 Boston College’s athletic div.
11 President’s tacit rejection
12 Set up
13 Rapper Sean Combs’ alias from 2001-2005
18 Former Marlins pitcher ___ Nen
22 Up, in a sense
25 Ye ___ shoppe
26 Goes in haste
27 Author Umberto
29 Tease
30 Tokyo’s former name
31 Source of many a boring lecture
32 Uber
33 Showed amazement, as at a firework display
38 Biblical question
39 Tennis great Sampras
40 Sounds of content
41 And so on, briefly
42 Abbr. in two U.S. state names
44 Super Bowl group: Abbr.
46 Quantity
47 Henry Winkler role on “Happy Days”
48 Ones who give blood
49 “I know you’re in there...”
50 Abbr. on a building cornerstone
56 “I’m in trouble!”
57 Cleveland’s lake
58 October birthstone
59 “Don’t put the ___ before the horse”
61 “Was that so bad?!”
63 Dir. from Cambridge to Salem
64 Member of a Western tribe
65 Silent assent


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