other Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 9 (contains answers)

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Title: Commercial Air Lines
Theme entries: common pieces of boilerplate from commercials and infomercials

Example:
23A, Commercial air line?: FOR A LIMITED TIME
56A, Commercial air line?: BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

Things I learned, with web links so you can learn them too:

6A, Colorado feeder: GILA
19A, Hersey town: ADANO [I thought that sounded familiar. I wrote the Wikipedia entry for the book.]
65A, Eos, to the Romans: AURORA
18D, Dame Edna giveaways, briefly: GLADS
33D, Debussy subject: MER
54D, Rhine feeder: AARE
67D, Pigeon drop, e.g.: SCAM
68D, Hit the sauce: TOPE

Overall:
I changed about 12 squares, got one wrong (it’s America’s Cup, not American, and “dog days units” are ACs) left one blank (fam. vs. Aare), and looked up 11 things.

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