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1 Opinion piece 6 Resident’s winter expense 10 Formal agreement 14 Apartment agreement 15 Waist-measuring unit 16 River through Spain 17 Missouri’s largest metropolis 19 Israel’s Barak 20 Costa __ 21 Cooking-with-garlic enticement 22 First leg of racing’s Triple Crown 26 Prepare for the gala 28 Signaled on stage 29 “Sure, sure” 30 Sagan of “Cosmos” 31 Place to relax 34 1990 comedy about a detective posing as a teacher 39 Suffix with Japan or Brooklyn 40 Water conduit 41 Greek war god 42 Entertaine­d with a tune 43 Unfavorabl­e reputation 46 Oslo attraction honoring Heyerdahl’s expedition 50 Run __ of the law 51 Old Norse explorer 52 Ball of smoke 53 “Roots” hero from Gambia 59 Mil. flying branch 60 “Say that’s true ... ” 61 Water from France 62 Vietnamese holidays 63 Haunted house sound 64 Fix errors in, as software

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1 Antlered grazer 2 Aegean, for one 3 __ Bernardino 4 Braying beast 5 Longs (for) 6 Minor setback 7 Room-size computer introduced in 1946 8 Perform on stage 9 Biblical “your” 10 Looked intently 11 Hate 12 Speck of bread 13 Start of the rest of your life, so it’s said 18 In __: as found 21 One-named singer 22 New Hampshire city 23 Founded: Abbr. 24 1980s Chrysler line 25 Mongolian tent 26 What Brinker’s boy plugged with a finger 27 Score-producing MLB stats 30 Is able to 31 “Get lost!” 32 Words from Wordsworth 33 Church recess 35 Online message 36 Corporal or colonel 37 1958 Chevalier musical 38 Half of Mork’s sign-off 42 Fills with feathers, as a pillow 43 Richard who married Liz Taylor ... twice 44 Cambodia’s continent 45 Knocked down 46 Done for 47 Helpful 48 Jack Sprat’s diet restrictio­n 49 High-IQ group 53 Actress Novak 54 Sci-fi aircraft 55 “__ seen worse” 56 Penpoint 57 Greek cross 58 Subj. with writing exercises

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©2016 Tribune Content Agency By Lila Cherry 8/23/16

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