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ACROSS

1 Rifle filler 5 Campus bigwigs 10 Ending for brides,

chamber or milk 14 Teller of fibs 15 Humanlike

machine of sci-fi 16 Edit menu option 17 Presidency’s last days, e.g. 19 ’90s TV title toon teen 20 Attaches with

string 21 Prefix with deed or

lead 23 Quaint lodging 24 Six-pack muscles 25 Pre-cable

reception aid 29 Stop for a moment 31 Abolish 32 Leading the field 33 Three: Pref. 34 Rapper __ Kim 35 PC key near Ctrl 36 Anonymous writer, maybe, and a hint to the devotee hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 60-Across 41 Kit__: candy bar 42 “Bossypants”

memoirist Tina 43 “__ you ready?” 44 Fire-setting crime 47 Boxing count 48 Gets a glimpse of 50 Commentato­r dissecting chips and putts 53 Bro or sis 54 Expected landing

hr. 55 Wobbly walker 56 Green film on

bronze 58 Clear liquors 60 Usual sitcom length (including ads) 63 First chip in a pot 64 “In other

words ... ” 65 Cabinet dept. concerned with nukes 66 Leaning Tower city 67 Stadium levels 68 __ buco: veal dish

DOWN

1 Brewpub fixture 2 Typically 18-inchlong baseball collectibl­es 3 Double-checked 4 Gold medals, to Spaniards 5 Pipe clog dissolver 6 Scads of centuries 7 Prez on a penny 8 Painter Rockwell 9 A red wine one is

hard to get out 10 Stick-in-the-__ 11 Consecrate using

oil 12 “Beats me” 13 Steal a pup 18 Links warning 22 Vodka order,

familiarly 26 Memorial column,

for short 27 Pita filling 28 Catch in a sting 30 Bored with 34 Permit 35 “Trainwreck” actress/ screenwrit­er Schumer 37 Attacked

on foot 38 Reject as false 39 Causes of disappeari­ng beaches 40 Entourages 44 Issue in May-December romances 45 Spiral pasta 46 Slopes 47 Japanese floor

mat 48 Laurel of Laurel

and Hardy 49 “Handmade fresh all day” pizza chain 51 Like three Cy

Young games 52 Bridge measures 57 “The Cosby Show”

son 59 Baltic or Aegean 61 Sara whom “nobody doesn’t like” 62 At a distance

 ?? By C.C. Burnikel
©2015 Tribune Content Agency
10/19/15 ??
By C.C. Burnikel ©2015 Tribune Content Agency 10/19/15

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