75th Birthday Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Toy originally called the "Pluto Platter"
  2. 7. Speedy Raptors guard?
  3. 9. Professional sports league debuted in 1949 (abbr)
  4. 10. Piano Man born in 1949
  5. 12. Disease for which a new vaccine was developed in 1949
  6. 13. Central American country whose government was overthrown in 1949
  7. 14. “Make it so” Captain
  8. 15. Racial segregation policy instituted in South Africa in 1949
  9. 20. Garden…golf course?
  10. 21. Province which joined Canada in 1949
  11. 22. Actor of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel born in 1949
  12. 24. Term from Orwell's 1984 that symbolizes government surveillance
  13. 25. Officer and a gentleman born in 1949?
  14. 27. Archipelago and television series
  15. 28. Controversial novelist once mistaken for Sal Bass
Down
  1. 1. Comic strip by Charles Schulz that debuted in 1949
  2. 2. Beloved or first name of former Raptor
  3. 4. Former Raptor dubbed “Butterfinger _______”
  4. 5. Reality television Judge Sheindlin
  5. 6. Perfect morsels of a peppermint rounds covered in rich dark chocolate, introduced in 1949, favoured by Kramer
  6. 8. Family name shared by Prince Philip
  7. 11. Judge in Simpson case
  8. 13. Emperor of Japan, who retained his title post-WWII but as a constitutional monarch
  9. 16. He went electric in 1965
  10. 17. “Dude” born in 1949
  11. 18. Candidate incorrectly projected as the winner in the 1948 U.S. election, a headline still notable in early 1949
  12. 19. Leader who established the People's Republic of China in 1949
  13. 22. Military alliance formed in 1949
  14. 23. ____ fixation (as per Freud)
  15. 26. Country that adopted its constitution in 1949, becoming a republic