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DAILY CROSSWORD

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1 Little fight 5 Scurries, old-style 9 Prefix with chute 13 Other than that 14 __ buco: veal dish 15 Hieroglyph­ics bird 16 Madonna hit with the lyrics “I’m keeping my baby” 19 Lacking 20 Choose (to) 21 Roast host 22 Add up to, in arithmetic 23 Skinny swimmer 24 Live-in nannies 26 Like some family-owned businesses 29 Kindle buy 30 Hops-drying oven 31 Woolf’s “__ Dalloway” 34 Narrow cut 35 Bake, as eggs 37 Veggie that can be pickled 38 Title time traveler with Bill 39 Fellas 40 Hardship 41 2003 Eddie Murphy movie about an entreprene­urial stay-at-home parent 44 Cast maligning remarks at 47 Watch closely 48 Sleuths, for short 49 Meager 50 Tavern brew 51 Ladies 52 Propose marriage 56 Olympian’s blade 57 Baseball tactic to advance a runner 58 Desire 59 Stereotypi­cal techie 60 Make less intense, as one’s breath 61 Iowa State city

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1 Unlike bosom buddies 2 Smallish celestial body 3 Hieroglyph­ics snakes 4 Beverage leaves 5 Showy publicity 6 “This __ working” 7 D.C. winter clock setting 8 Soak (up), as sauce 9 Merchant whom Simple Simon met 10 Beaded calculator­s 11 Potato cutter 12 Lenten symbol 17 Couch potato’s opposite 18 Move to a new container, as a houseplant 19 Least dangerous 23 Startled cry 24 Hebrew winter month 25 Cold War country: Abbr. 27 Selling really well 28 Clangorous 31 Cheerleade­r’s sound booster 32 Adjusts the position of 33 Emphasize 35 Soap bubbles 36 Jekyll’s murderous other self 37 Ballpoint brand 39 Brooks of country music 40 Pastrami sandwich bread 41 A little banged up, fenderwise 42 Backspace over 43 Yes votes 44 Colorado ski resort 45 Range 46 Origami medium 50 Em, to Dorothy 51 Former name of Thailand 53 Flow back 54 Sine __ non: essential 55 Pan Am rival

 ?? By Jeff Stillman ?? ©2016 Tribune Content Agency 6/27/16
By Jeff Stillman ©2016 Tribune Content Agency 6/27/16

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