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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Working stiff 5 Brief timetable 9 Racing venue near Windsor Castle 14 “Beetle Bailey”

dog 15 Greet from a

distance 16 Waste not 17 Inch or foot 18 Actor Bana of

“Closed Circuit” 19 Singer Haggard 20 *Shake off one’s

daydreams 23 Towel holder 24 Strokes on greens 25 Rap fan 27 Little child, in

Cannes 30 Decanter relatives 33 Richly adorn 34 “Born Free”

lioness 37 Carne __: Mexican

dish 38 Old AT&T rival 39 *Cause of chubby cheeks, perhaps 41 Perp’s prey, in copspeak 42 French floor 44 Like the lama, but not the llama, in a Nash poem 45 Foot warmer 46 Switches for mood

lighting 48 Boardroom

illustrati­ons 50 Farmland measure 51 Tawdry 53 Trojan __ 55 Leave hurriedly ... and, literally, what the first words of the answers to starred clues can do 60 Joint commonly sprained 62 __ facto 63 “__ a heart!” 64 Stout mug 65 Property claim 66 Biblical garden 67 __ four: small cake 68 “A __ of Two Cities” 69 Bird’s home

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1 High hair style 2 Active European volcano 3 Of the ears 4 Tablet 5 Sugary brewed drink 6 K, to a jeweler 7 Lesser of two __ 8 Metric prefix 9 Kid in a military family 10 Observe 11 *Ingratiate oneself (with) 12 Norwegian capital 13 Ready to be kicked off 21 Gallop 22 Ltrs. in an unfilled TV time slot 26 Western treaty org. 27 Urged (on) 28 Gangster Frank in “Road to Perdition” 29 *Bargain hunter’s venue 30 Street eatery 31 Order from on high 32 Pink-slips 35 Debt-heavy corp. deals 36 Word in a thesaurus: Abbr. 39 Temporary Oktoberfes­t structure 40 “The Untouchabl­es” gangster 43 Yukon automaker 45 Drink pourer’s words 47 Actor Stephen 49 Wellness gp. 51 Vintage photo hue 52 Painter’s stand 53 Hornet, e.g. 54 Poker bet that’s not optional 56 Highland garb 57 Florida’s Miami-__ County 58 Times to call, in ads 59 Apartment payment 61 52, in old Rome

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