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OPTIMUS PRIME Optimus Prime Is the Leader of the Autobots, a Faction of Transformers Robots That Turn Into Vehicles OPTIMUS PRIME Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots, a faction of Transformers robots that turn into vehicles. He’s brought them in to consult on the optimal (get it? optimal?) gift to bring, but they’re going to have to transform before they can help. In other words, one Across entry in each row of this cryptic will not fit into the diagram until the vehicular Autobot it contains has been transformed into a single letter, always making a new word or phrase. For instance, if a clue led to the answer AUTOHARP, the vehicle (that is, the AUTO) might transform to an S to make the word SHARP. The fourteen vehicles are shown below. Down answers are normal. BARGE • BUS • CANOE • CAB • CAR • ROCKET • RV • SCOW • SHIP • SLED • SUB • TANK • TRAIN • VAN ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 Impatient person reported in Asian capital (6) 11 12 13 14 15 5 Regressive German capital ejecting heads of Italian and English union 16 17 18 19 20 group (4, Abbr.) 8 Without one shot, duelists fought (7) 11 Economy kind of drops in leisure 21 22 time (9) 12 Tech company is missing, moving 23 24 25 26 out west (3) 14 Nightspot’s light meal is stuffed with 27 28 29 30 31 32 nothing (5) 16 We objectively care, at heart, to join my military group (2,4) 33 34 35 36 37 19 Spock and aliens commandeering restricted machine parts (9) 38 39 40 41 20 Actor Mineo seems almost lifeless at first (3) 42 43 44 45 46 21 ’80s soul singer healed Serbian rogue with only seconds to spare (2,7) 47 48 49 50 51 52 22 Frenchman swimming Rhine (5) 23 Son leaving as a Bob Klahn cryptic 53 54 55 56 57 reveals what Madonna believes (8) 26 Leaky pieces of crust ruined no 58 59 60 alcoves (9) 28 With an unhappy expression, tell the 61 62 63 cops everything about hood (8) 29 As said by Jacques, “What?” (3) 30 Writer from Baltimore chases 64 65 66 leading member of Baltimore fraternal order (4, Abbr.) 33 To answer an accusation, brings in DOWN 35 Settled, I entered hippie’s home (4) usual suspect seen entering 1 White’s coauthor doesn’t have small 37 Mythical creature is seen Hewlett -Packard (5,2) chest (5) frolicking (6) 36 Pat’s sidekick going past South 2 Egad, sounds like sleet, eh? (1,3) 39 Energy packed with a musical rhythm America’s grassland (7) 3 Read until reaching the fourth place (6) 38 Private investigator partially enjoyed where Simón Bolívar is prominent (4) 41 Put up with a piece of plumbing in the home cooking (3,2) 4 Listen to frivolous piece of narrative bathroom that’s unfinished (5) 40 Foreign cash acquiring subtle, poetry (5) 43 Slab is fit to be installed in center of timeless vestments (9) 5 Q and A’s about stock index (6) Whittier (6) 42 Show Rip Torn reverence (7) 6 Heading east, cut and run (4) 45 Behold: dead bugs, smashed (6) 44 Work hard without using last of joint 7 Goes back, removing top (sexy!) to 47 Legally representing oneself in text lubricant (3) get some ammunition (2,4) (5) 46 Hole found in retro classy bag (5) 8 Lob water all over bathroom fixture 48 Change faculty, reportedly (5) 48 100 plus 500 sheets colored (5,3) 49 About a reportedly large bird (4) yellowish -white (5) 9 Celebrities’ flight overlooking island 51 Photos will broadcast a tiny part of 50 Buy and sell tailored undies, boss (5) an image (5) (2,8) 10 He is adding 59 to a Roman sort of 52 Dionysus anxiously hiding a lazy 53 It’s essential to cure habits! (5) spiral (5) woman (5) 54 Calling an audible, Green Bay player 13 At first, like Anne Rice’s vampires, a 55 Going over routine without Mother had accepted linebacker’s first sign lycanthrope is still undergoing Hubbard (1,3) (7) metamorphosis (6) 56 Leftover doctor, for example (4) 58 Musician Brian returns to produce 15 Out -of -control snit ain’t right (4) 57 Cuts taxes after cutting deficit at last single (3) 17 Try to run through station with a bat (4) 59 Tesla drank a fresh beer stein (7) (4,2) 60 King’s kisses placed on two parts of 18 Ability to translate names (5) heroes (6) 24 More dejected King leaving to cry (5) 61 Averts rioting, fast (6) 25 Joshua covertly harboring group of 62 Tool scraping sulfur off footwear (3) anti -Communists (4, Abbr.) 63 Later, people in favor return to 27 What about detente? (4) harbor —excellent (3,2) 31 Disgust after the second sign of life 64 See second sight near health club (4) (5) 65 Take care of the beginning of the end 32 Serenity while entering outskirts of (4) Europe (4) 66 Goblin meandering around California 34 One almost follows lady the way historic residence (3,5) ducklings follow their mother? (8) .
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