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Oliver Twist, for one
Normal start?
Fight starter
BP merger partner
Refines wine
Hodgepodge or mishmash
1939 epic film
Maximizing suffix
Soprano solo, sometimes Mimieux of Hollywood
“Summer of ’69” singer Adams Seam contents
1996 or 2000 presidential candidate
With a twangy inflection
Cause to lose face
Patron saint of Norway Deadeye’s skill
Lost it
Wall St. location
Weigh down
Enjoy to the last drop
Causes to condense on a surface Like desert growth
Coiffure style
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Abridgments
Jazz singer Fitzgerald
___ Paulo (Brazilian city)
Part of a grade-school dance instruction
Poker stake
Winglike
Wish count
Tampa and Montego Be dependent (on)
Tofu beans (Var.)
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Plum variety
His cookies are famous European high spot
Word with “cap” or “cube”
“In your dreams!”
Copper coating
Turkish commander (Var.) Like some older profs (Abbr.) Pallid looking
Once-seedy section of NYC Pica relative
Ingredients in fuzzy navels? Bonanza vein
Place using dinars
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Take a break
Break of day
Comply with commands
More in need of a massage
Flight height, on a gauge
“Well, ___-di-dah!”
Deter
Opponent
Frankenstein’s flunky
A ___ bagatelle
“___ in victory” (elementary lesson)
Tokyo, formerly
Comfortable state
Craggy mountain ridges
Where to spot a ringer?
Grain elevator
Pro sports venue
Large bill
Tailor’s tucks
Tattle
Fly high, as an eagle
Ink-saving abbr.
Type of rug or code
They’re studied by English majors Grand ___ Opry
Which of you
HOLDERS Bayern Munich brushed off their recent poor domestic form by throwing down a Champions League marker with an emphatic 4-1 win at Lazio in Tuesday’s last-16 first leg to take a “huge step” towards the quarter-finals.
Robert Lewandowski gave Bayern an early lead before 17-year-old Jamal Musiala scored his first Champions League goal on only his fourth appearance in Europe.
Stuttgart-born Musiala, who turns 18 Friday, is now the youngest English goalscorer in Champions League history.
A Leroy Sane strike gave Bayern a threegoal half-time cushion at the Stadio Olimpico before Francesco Acerbi scored an own goal just after the break.
Joaquin Correa pulled a goal back early in the second half to give the scoreline some respectability for Lazio.
“We were aggressive from the start and went full throttle,” Bayern midfielder Leon Goretzka said after his first appearance since testing positive for Covid-19.
Simone Inzaghi’s Lazio need a near
miracle in the return game in Munich on March 17 to reach the last eight.
“Bayern are the world champions,” said Inzaghi. “They definitely did not need our mistakes to make it even easier for them.”
Flick pulled a surprise by starting Musiala in place of Thomas Mueller, who was sidelined after testing positive for Covid-19.
Benjamin Pavard was also out with coronavirus, while midfielders Corentin Tolisso and Serge Gnabry were both missing with thigh injuries.
Despite dropping five points in the Bundesliga last week and bringing a depleted squad to Rome, Bayern needed less than nine minutes before Lewandowski pounced on a mistake in the Lazio defence.
The Poland star snapped up a weak back-pass by Mateo Musacchio to dribble around Lazio’s veteran goalkeeper Pepe Reina and fire into an empty net.
It was Lewandowski’s 72nd Champions League goal, taking him solo third on the
all-time list ahead of Real Madrid great Raul.
England Under-21 midfielder Musiala, showed maturity beyond his years to calmly drill past Reina to make it 2-0 on 24 minutes.
The lead was extended just before halftime when Kingsley Coman’s shot was parried and Sane tapped in the rebound.
There were two goals in the space of three minutes just after the break, with Acerbi turning the ball into his own net as Bayern counter-attacked from a Lazio corner.
Lazio were in danger of matching their heaviest home defeat in Europe having lost 4-0 to Chelsea in the 2003/04 group stage.
But Bayern’s defence has often crumbled in recent weeks and Lazio forward Correa took advantage of poor marking to fire past Manuel Neuer in the 49th minute.
Bayern are now unbeaten in their last 18 Champions League games, with only a 1-1 group stage draw at Atletico Madrid last December denying them a perfect record of wins.