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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Hissed “Over here, behind the sofa!” 5 Notable Titanic casualty 10 Stir up 14 Latin “others” 15 Actress __ Neal of “Law & Order: SVU” 16 Give off 17 Unrefined sort 18 Trooper automaker 19 “Ooh, fun!” 20 Typically tricolored ice cream dessert 22 Really tough, as tasks 24 Either Bush, e.g. 25 Exhausts 26 Made to order 29 Do penance 32 FreeCell or Snapchat 35 Sewn line 36 Multilevel, as wedding cakes 37 Auditioner’s hope 39 Barcelona buddy 41 Rig on the road 42 Sounds from sties 44 Gaming novice, slangily 46 Bambi’s mother 47 Witty Wilde 48 Bad to the core 50 Crowns for some queens 52 Andes or Rockies 56 With 58-Across, salad fixings ... and what you’ll find aptly hidden in puzzle rows 4, 6 and 10 58 See 56-Across 60 For all of us 61 __ curls: arm exercises 63 Observes 64 Unmitigate­d joy 65 Together 66 Teen woe 67 Bathtub bubbles 68 __ Island Rams: Atlantic 10 conference baseball team 69 Chai and rooibos

DOWN

1 Part of PBR 2 Slippery __: risky course of action 3 Iowa’s __ City 4 Airport surface 5 Favorable score for a server 6 Maria’s ayes 7 Letter after sigma 8 Like many 2020 meetings 9 Meet up in 25 years, maybe 10 Second drafts, say 11 “This is very flattering!” 12 Stead 13 Nice summers 21 Burden 23 “Ozark” actor Morales 25 Pizza Hut competitor 27 Red and Black 28 Scot’s cap 30 Memorable captain’s name that’s a sign backwards 31 Actress Falco 32 Lhasa __ 33 Thumbs-down reviews 34 Monitored, as an exam 36 Little honk 38 Walks aimlessly 40 Understood 43 Tough-to-get-outof situation 45 Glacier chunk 48 Peppery root 49 Bugs 51 Concrete-reinforcin­g rod 53 Dorothy, to Em 54 Thelma portrayer Davis 55 Mississipp­i quartet 56 Wheel teeth 57 “Castle Rock” airer 58 Sell 59 Duel tool 62 Pigeon sound

 ?? By Catherine Cetta ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ?? 9/28/21
By Catherine Cetta ©2021 Tribune Content Agency 9/28/21

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