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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Pet adoption agcy. 5 West Indies tribe for which a sea is named 10 “Rhyme Pays”

rapper 14 Boxers Laila and

Muhammad 15 Carne __: burrito

filling 16 Benelux country:

Abbr. 17 Legendary terror

of the deep 19 __ blocker 20 Action hero Jason in three Ludlum novels 21 Swedish vodka

brand 23 Material 25 Prefix with space 26 “__ the Sheriff”:

Clapton hit 28 Under threat 32 Like most people 33 Comic’s perch 34 Label for Elvis 35 “Supervixen­s” director Meyer 36 Honor roll student’s disappoint­ment 37 Fashion line 38 Author’s ending? 39 Celebrated chef Ducasse 40 Copycats 41 Lovers of wordplay 43 Get big on Twitter 44 Gumbo pod 45 Sierra Nevada lake 47 Ginger’s “Gilligan’s Island” hutmate 50 Repaired, as a fence 53 Awesome, nowadays 54 “Doesn’t matter to me” 57 Old film dog 58 “Family Matters” misfit 59 Mirror shape 60 Quantum movement? 61 Body of verse 62 Sunday benches

DOWN

1 Airline to Oslo 2 Working-class Roman 3 Padua parting 4 Even though 5 Lacks what it takes to 6 Equipment, in a ledger 7 Lab rodent 8 Brainstorm 9 Rihanna’s home country 10 Congenital 11 “Forget You” singer who was a coach on “The Voice” 12 Caesar’s last question 13 The one over there 18 Lightweigh­t synthetic 22 Elite Navy fighter 24 Names given to an assassin 26 Rodeo automaker 27 “Aye, lass,” in Acapulco 29 Sentence subject, usually 30 Birthday greeting opened with a click 31 Ewes’ guys 32 Give it __: swing hard 33 Prep for fight night 36 Tidies 37 Radar gun user 39 Big name in razors 40 Rice-__ 42 Airport porter 43 1986 horror film in which a man becomes an insect 46 Female French friends 47 Repast 48 Church area behind an altar 49 Detective Wolfe 51 Roof overhang 52 Sketch 55 Just get (by) 56 Golf Hall of Famer Ernie

 ??  ?? By Samuel A. Donaldson ©2017 Tribune Content Agency 10/10/17
By Samuel A. Donaldson ©2017 Tribune Content Agency 10/10/17

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