Across
1. They may be split
5. Common word
8. Moistens
13. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
15. Fool
16. Eye layer
17. Flair
18. Not at work
19. Star pitcher who never did for the Mets what Johan accomplished
20. Egg cells
22. The Rambam
24. Wonder
27. Come forth
29. Beauty pageant wear
30. Leah
32. Formal vote
34. Boot part
35. Author Morrison
36. Column’s counterpart
38. Traffic sign
40. Rochel
44. Binge
47. Lanzbom and Solomon, e.g.
48. “___ and the King of Siam”
52. Wrath
53. High ball?
56. Yosef
58. Farm newborn
60. High elected office in Rome, once
62. Great-great uncle of 56 and 63-Across
63. Binyamin
65. Santana, e.g.
67. Wolf down
68. Wall St. debut
70. Two-door car
74. Curl one’s lip
75. Pitied person, for short
76. Rav Yosef Karo
77. First name of a president shot while running for a third term in office
78. Feminine suffix
79. Simcha dance
Down
1. Fat letters?
2. After-tax amount
3. Like some humor
4. Han of sci-fi
5. Also
6. Where the Hawks play
7. Statue, perhaps
8. Fool
9. Declares
10. Help settle
11. Umbrella
12. Pie-eyed
14. “When pigs fly!”
21. Lifeless, old-style
23. Honey maker
24. Be in a cast?
25. Seuss resident
26. Bard’s nightfall
28. Form of ether
31. Sensation, slangily
33. Affirmative vote
37. Get hitched
39. Apple product
41. Aquarium denizen
42. Swear
43. Blah
44. Most awesome (in slang)
45. Desecrate
46. Akin
49. Lg. for Kings and Devils
50. Matrix character
51. Invoice fig.
54. Instrument with rina
55. Ox-related
57. Choose
59. Set straight
61. Scruffs
64. Agile
66. Brit’s “Baloney!”
69. Delivery room doctors, for short
71. ET carrier
72. Average
73. In-flight info, for short
(Answers, next week)
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