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ACROSS

1 Grocery store sack 4 Outdoor dining spot

9 Sauce fruit 14 Secluded plight on

a desert island, say 16 Stacked

17 Big Ten school with eight national football titles 18 Stretched out like a

sharpshoot­er 19 Good thing for a film’s audio and video to be in 20 Presidenti­al

period, say 21 Dueler’s choice 22 Tolstoy’sKarenina 24 Enjoy dinner 25 Contacted on a

cellphone 28 AP’sCo-driver of

theCentury­Mario 33 Burn-soothing

creams

34 Socket insert 35 Smallamoun­t 36 Fix, as a fight 37 Mickey, toRocky 40 Pair in London? 41 Somber news item 43 Mining finds 44 Water bill basis 46 Rival of 17-Across 48 Defeated 49 Before, in poetry 50 Santa’s naughtyand-nice record, e.g.

51 Illicit romance 54 “Psych!” 55 Protein-rich egg

part

59 Ransacks

60 Rival of 12-Down 62 French school 63 Far-reaching 64 Displeases James

Bond, at the bar? 65 When“themouse

ran down” 66 Fancy marble

DOWN

1 Playbill listings 2 Like an unswept fireplace

3 Enter

4 Partners for mas 5 Showup at 6 Headpiece at the Miss America website

7 Greek “i”

8 Free throwvalue 9 Showup 10 Robbed at sea 11 Alka-Seltzer sound 12 Car-collecting

comic Jay 13 Garden with a

taboo 9-Across 15 Site

21 Lettuce serving 23 Egg-laying spot 25 Billiards bounce 26 Suspect’s story 27 Science that

involves reasoning 28 Out of thisworld 29 “Finale Ultimo” chorus in “The Sound ofMusic” 30 Word that excites a

dog

31 Trace of color 32 “PeerGynt”

playwright­Henrik 34 Prefix with trooper

or legal

38 Federer of tennis 39 Regrets 42 Broadway

destinatio­n 45 Lecherous man

goats

47 Flowers in a van

Gogh masterpiec­e 48 Like a mosquito

victim 50 Powerball, e.g. 51 “__ well that ends

well”

52 Rival of 28-Across 53 Central points 54 ArianaGran­de album “thank u, __”

56 Fail to put in 57 Volcanic output 58 Had downpat 60 Pasture

61 Opposite ofWSW

 ?? By Tyler Burnett ©2020 Tribune Content Agency ??
By Tyler Burnett ©2020 Tribune Content Agency

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