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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 “__ Secretary” 6 First Negro League electee to Cooperstow­n 11 Radical ’70s org. 14 Durance who plays Lois on “Smallville” 15 Per __ 16 Comparativ­e suffix 17 Grim 18 Removes with a putty knife

20 Out

22 Where hauls may be divided 23 Pouchlike shoulder bag 25 Nearly straightho­rned antelope 26 Going up 29 Tender 32 Warning to a meddler

34 Cote sounds 35 Pilot’s place 36 442 or 88, e.g. 37 Guideline when something is dropped from one’s diet? 40 Eclair filling 41 Stylish filmmakers 42 Shepherd’s pie bits 44 Poet’s rhyme for

“home”

45 Important artery 48 Constructi­on equipment 53 Coldly devious 55 Vaudeville production 56 Preceding, poetically 57 Name in 1976 Olympic news 58 Totally remove 59 Palindromi­c song from a palindromi­c band 60 Funding source 61 Prohibitio­n details

DOWN

1 Most populous U.S. city that isn’t a county seat

2 Fine things? 3 Tuner, sometimes 4 One of Yellowston­e’s two million-plus 5 Be opportunis­tic, metaphoric­ally 6 Dance step 7 “A Cook’s Tour” host

8 Cross letters 9 Forklift truck friend of Luigi in “Cars” films 10 Largest penguin

11 Seat of South Dakota’s Minnehaha County 12 Bailed 13 Warnings, perhaps 19 Alternativ­e baking staple 21 Regulate 24 Breath spray brand 26 Lincoln wore them 27 Window with a crank, often 28 Pursue

30 Köln closing 31 Lo-__ 32 Yvette’s evening 33 Foes of Buffy 34 Phased-out propellant 38 Intense, as pain 39 Spread by moving dirt?

43 __ energy 45 Field food, briefly 46 Dynamic start? 47 John/Rice musical 49 Celsius freezing point 50 __-Picone: fashion house

51 Sign of age, maybe 52 Dates

54 N.L. East player

 ?? By Peter A. Collins ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ??
By Peter A. Collins ©2021 Tribune Content Agency

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