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1 Teensy 5 Box for tea leaves 10 Japanese box

lunch 15 Tree with an oilrich seed 16 Streamline­d 17 Frank __ Wright 18 “Long time no see” follower 20 Old enough 21 “Lady and the __” 22 Traffic signals 24 Possesses 25 Stage of grief 26 Smartens (up) 28 Manhattan liquor 29 Full of activity 34 “Ben-Hur” extras 37 “Now it’s clear” 38 Sonogram subject 39 Sticks (out) 42 Had a nice chitchat 44 __ out a living 45 Ahead 47 Not for kids, filmwise 49 One whose wages come from wagers 50 Slugger Hank 51 Feel crummy 54 Rum-flavored cakes 56 River mouth formation 58 Far from friendly 60 Steep headlands 64 With deleted scenes included 65 Passover staple 67 Likely to goof 69 Dam that created Lake Nasser 70 Simoleons 71 Cookie cooker 72 Pork cuts 73 Goad 74 Twitter headquarte­rs?

DOWN

1 Beatty/Hoffman box office flop 2 Sticky 3 Water treatment

plant input 4 “I did good!” 5 Fort Collins sch. 6 Actress Jessica 7 One in the headlights? 8 Critter on XING signs 9 Informal “See what I mean?” 10 Come into one’s own 11 Pixie 12 Craft for six puzzle answers 13 Rapper whose name sounds like a big cat 14 Poems of praise 19 “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018) actress 23 Electrical­ly connected with 27 Plant firmly 30 “So what?!” 31 Can. neighbor 32 Ref, slangily 33 Last critter in an ABC book 35 TV’s “Science Guy” 36 Lawn starter 37 Honshu port 39 Chore 40 “One card left!” game warning 41 12-Down queueing pattern depicted by six puzzle answers 43 Corn unit 46 Science fair awards 48 Ultimately become 51 Nook 52 58-Down default music program 53 Under the surface 55 “So I was wrong!” 57 Defunct scandalpla­gued company 58 Apple computer 59 Toll lane choice 61 Throat trouble 62 Kissable fairy-tale critter 63 Unaccompan­ied 66 Ray gun sound 68 Legged it

 ??  ?? By Andrew Linzer ©2018 Tribune Content Agency 7/11/18
By Andrew Linzer ©2018 Tribune Content Agency 7/11/18

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