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Klapp who delivered the line "I don't want the world, I just want your half" over the phone for TMBG's "Ana Ng"
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Across
  1. 1A
    Klapp who delivered the line "I don't want the world, I just want your half" over the phone for TMBG's "Ana Ng"
  2. 5A
    Table salt, formulaically
  3. 9A
    Katz's, e.g.
  4. 13A
    Protest singer Phil whom TMBG imagined marrying Marvin Gaye in "The Day"
  5. 14A
    Chunk of ice
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    Computer you might have used 2-Down on
  7. 16A
    *What you might say to someone admiring a five-foot-nine-inch portrait of your wife
  8. 19A
    Merits
  9. 20A
    Admitted to the clergy
  10. 21A
    Equilibrium
  11. 23A
    "I ____ so much trouble!"
  12. 24A
    *Body parts at which we have the world's wealth of information, thanks to the internet
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    Org. that might give you a loan (if you're a developing country) or a message that will self-destruct in five seconds (if you're Ethan Hunt)
  14. 32A
    Scottish denial
  15. 33A
    Biblical brother whose hunger was matched only by his hairiness
  16. 34A
    Staple gun relative
  17. 36A
    Muslim holy books
  18. 38A
    *Advice for someone who forgot to bring sunglasses to the beach
  19. 40A
    Penners of poetic praise
  20. 41A
    Tropical fish whose name anagrams to "swears"
  21. 42A
    Rave partner?
  22. 43A
    Ending for id or char
  23. 44A
    Fantasy publisher named for a rocky mountaintop
  24. 45A
    *Me, but with a goatee
  25. 49A
    ____ of March
  26. 50A
    "Four-Eyes About to Rock, I ______ You": 1999 essay by the bespectacled John Flansburgh, riffing on an AC/DC song title
  27. 55A
    Places for people to pump out the jams
  28. 59A
    "Gymnopedies" composer Erik who shares a vibe with TMBG that I'm having a hard time describing but hopefully you get it
  29. 60A
    TMBG album released March 1992, named for a cancelled NASA moon mission and featuring this puzzle's starred entries as song titles
  30. 62A
    Singer/dancer Basil whose hit "Hey Mickey" appeared on the Belgian compilation "Was Het Nu 70, 80 Of 90?" alongside TMBG's "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
  31. 63A
    Language related to Hindi and written in an Arabic-based script
  32. 64A
    Calls them They May Be Giants, e.g.
  33. 65A
    "Then / Is when I maybe should have wrote it down / But when I looked around to find ____..." - TMBG, "Broke in Two"
  34. 66A
    Abound (with)
  35. 67A
    "Unwelcome vision of ____ fingers / Push back the hands of time" - TMBG echoing Homer's famous description of the dawn
Down
  1. 1D
    "On a summer evening, the song of the Tudlow can be heard; its characteristic gasping is both a mating call and a cry for help. The number of gasps follows the Fibonacci sequence, often reaching as high as 55 or 89 gasps before the animal _____ consciousness." - TMBG, "Turtle Songs of North America"
  2. 2D
    Discontinued Apple messaging software
  3. 3D
    "_____ and the Princesses of Power": 2018 Netflix reboot of a 1980s spinoff of a show based on an action figure line
  4. 4D
    NBA and NAACP, e.g.
  5. 5D
    Grp. with Lions and Bears, but not Bengals or Jaguars
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    Saxophone type occasionally played by John Linnell
  7. 7D
    Ironically named "Cowardly Dog" with a Cartoon Network show and a TMBG song about him
  8. 8D
    "I'll follow you"
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    Emotional state of the letter D in TMBG's "E Eats Everything"
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    Key of TMBG's "I'll Sink Manhattan" and G maj. relative
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    Lollygag
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    Like many Starbucks orders in the summertime
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    "You wish!"
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    Secret hideout
  15. 22D
    Tendons
  16. 25D
    ___ a soul
  17. 26D
    Parental justification that's as unsatisfying as it is hard to counter
  18. 27D
    Saag ______: Indian spinach-and-cheese dish
  19. 28D
    Figure (out)
  20. 29D
    How Rome wasn't built
  21. 30D
    "You've got the soul of a treadmill / And the eye of a merchant ______ / The stomach of an arachnid / And the spine of a vending machine" - TMBG, "Tractor"
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    One you might play second fiddle to
  23. 35D
    "You probably get that a ___ / I'll bet that people say that a ___ to you" - TMBG, "You Probably Get That A ___"
  24. 36D
    Rap pioneer Blow whom you're free to talk like, according to TMBG in "Where Your Eyes Don't Go"
  25. 37D
    "I don't want a bagel, I don't want a bean, I wouldn't like a bag of beef ___ beer" - TMBG, "Dinner Bell"
  26. 38D
    "4 Years of ____ Breaking - A Question In Song": 2020 TMBG song reflecting on a highly unconventional presidency
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    "That hurts! That really hurts!"
  28. 43D
    "My package has arrived!"
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    Heartthrob
  30. 47D
    Like a cat next to an empty bag, perhaps
  31. 48D
    Crosby, Stills, ____ & Young: band whose song "Ohio" was covered in live performances of John Linnell's "State Songs" side project
  32. 51D
    "The World Before _____ On": TMBG lament about all the technological progress we were promised that hasn't materialized
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    In _____ (gestating)
  34. 53D
    Levels of stadium seating
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    Itty-bitty
  36. 55D
    Many TMBG fans might have day jobs analyzing it (them?)
  37. 56D
    Genre big with Tokyo teens
  38. 57D
    "You may not believe this but it has been shown / The reason clouds are white is that they're made out of ____ / And when I found out I slapped my own face / For now I know why skeletons are up in outer space" - TMBG, "Or So I Have Read"
  39. 58D
    On TMBG's self-titled album, one starts with "Everything Right Is Wrong Again" and the other starts with "(She Was A) Hotel Detective"
  40. 61D
    "This is my last stick of ___ / I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some / Except for Ashurbanipal, who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-daroan" - TMBG, "The Mesopotamians"
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