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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Wander (about) 4 Fragrant bloom 9 Utter disorder 14 Second person in Eden 15 Kitchen sponge brand 16 Full of moxie 17 Like many a gray day 18 Peanuts 20 Sales meeting aid 22 Feel crummy 23 Coal __ 24 Most populous continent 25 Date night destinatio­n 28 One of a gallon’s 16 30 Like a successful business, presumably 32 Stand against 34 Northern California city 37 Birch family tree 38 Peanuts 41 Hardly fresh 42 Bit of photograph­y equipment 43 Southern California team 45 Inside informatio­n 49 Copper source 50 Hits the road 53 Albany-to-Buffalo canal 54 Former Air France jet 56 Geologist’s division 57 Tops by a slight margin 58 Peanuts 62 Picnic invader 63 Ready to hit the hay 64 Invalidate 65 Maiden name preceder 66 Used up 67 Pond critters 68 Mexican Mrs.

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1 Gaudy trinket 2 Opposed 3 Enlargemen­t advantage 4 Scot’s swimming spot 5 German “I” 6 Welcoming wreath 7 Highway through the Yukon 8 Newswoman Roberts 9 “Erin Burnett OutFront” channel 10 Pick up with effort 11 Geographic­ally based trio 12 Makes trite, in a way 13 Hoff who wrote the “Henrietta” children’s books 19 Red “Sesame Street” puppet 21 Light beer? 25 Biceps exercise 26 Not at all handy 27 “Trainwreck” director Judd 29 Pay-__-view 31 Kings, e.g. 33 Lumbered 35 “MASH” setting: Abbr. 36 Lopsided 38 Sci-fi fleet vessel 39 Leave no doubt 40 GI addresses 41 __-mo 44 What a freelancer may work on 46 Hearts, but not minds 47 Ballpark snack 48 Lipton rival 51 Lindsay of “Mean Girls” 52 Foolish 55 Anticounte­rfeiting agts. 57 Slim swimmers 58 Euro divs. 59 West Coast hrs. 60 Houston-to-Dallas dir. 61 Belly

 ?? By Patti Varol ©2016 Tribune Content Agency ?? 10/26/16
By Patti Varol ©2016 Tribune Content Agency 10/26/16

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