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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Moo __ pork 4 Low-level

employment 9 Starz competitor 12 Police

14 Sweet text

15 “No argument” 16 “Don’t make __

hard!”

17 Drew (in) 18 Backwoods

possessive

19 “__, Brute?” 20 Some ski lifts 21 “It is the __, and Juliet is the sun”: Romeo

22 “How cool!” 24 Former JFK lander 25 “Burnt” pigment 26 Comic strip woman who married Irving 27 Baja bear

28 Mac

29 Language suffix 30 Prefaced

33 Au pair’s subj. 34 Many Olympic

events

35 Wolfs (down) 40 Vistula River city 46 Chef’s hat

47 Little untruth 50 Ewe-ish? 51 Uncertaint­y 52 Master 53 Medieval weapons 54 Completes a road test maneuver ... or the answers to starred clues, as arranged 57 Game before the finals 58 Doughnut finish 59 Analogy words 61 __ II razor 62 One wearing gloves to work 63 Poolroom array 64 Tax form IDs 65 Pipsqueak 66 Omar of “House”

DOWN

1 *It may be political 2 Starbucks purchases 3 Lake Placid, vis-àvis New York City 4 Jazz vibraphoni­st Jackson 5 Spritzer mixer 6 *Period in the Age of Reptiles 7 Intimation 8 Blossoms-to-be 9 Subject to court judgment 10 Common paella ingredient­s 11 *New Orleans time zone 13 *Deep __ 15 *Main idea 23 Skinny toon Olive 25 Mysterious craft 31 Stammering sounds 32 Disapprovi­ng sound 35 Criterion: Abbr. 36 Craftsmen paid by the barrel? 37 Atlantis dweller of comics 38 Protocols 39 Greek cheese 41 Tomato variety 42 Greed 43 Creates, as a fuss 44 Ragtime dance 45 Director Craven 47 Uncultivat­ed, as farmland 48 Mountainee­r’s aid 49 Richard of “Law & Order: SVU” 55 Pride parade letters

56 Heist puller 57 City map parts: Abbr.

60 CIA predecesso­r

 ??  ?? ©2018 Tribune Content Agency 7/18/18 By Jeffrey Wechsler
©2018 Tribune Content Agency 7/18/18 By Jeffrey Wechsler

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