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ACROSS

1 Go bad

5 Heart

9 Finished

13 Successor org. to the Bureau of Labor Standards

14 Cooked

15 Follow

16 Passes (by)

17 Public relations staple

18 Character in all but one “Star Wars” film, familiarly

19 Certain ranch

22 Healthy-looking, in a way

23 Unexpected result

27 Excise

31 Cafeteria patrons

33 Playwright’s vehicle

34 Relent

37 Ashtabula’s lake

38 Father’s love, say

41 Many a newspaper one is written well in advance

42 Blue dye

43 __ wrench

44 Scheduled

46 Forceful words

after “because”

47 As a friend, to François

48 Christian Science founder Mary Baker __

50 Morning drink choice

55 Divert

59 Cinematic beekeeper

60 Make

62 Outdated

63 Teri of “Mr. Mom”

64 Charity

65 From the top

66 Salt Lake City team

67 Preceded by 1-, 9- and

65-Across, what each circled word literally suggests

DOWN

1 Deck (out)

2 Summer Games org.

3 Saturn’s secondlarg­est moon

4 Tammany Hall caricaturi­st

5 Input feature of many laptops

6 What pros know, with “the”

7 Ally

8 TV role for Lucy

9 Bruins legend

10 Winery vessel

11 Tourism lead-in

12 “Suspicion” studio

15 Eastern Gulf Coast city

20 More loyal

21 Paris’s __ la Paix

24 Stanley’s wife in “A Streetcar Named Desire”

25 How a campfire story might be told

26 Groups of three

27 Mob leaders

28 Functional

29 One-named Venetian master

30 One-named folk singer

32 Repeat symbol, in music

34 Prohibitio­n

35 Either Bush, in school

36 Draft org.

39 First name in 1970s gymnastics

40 No-sweat class

45 Host

46 Goof-offs

48 Key of Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto

49 Caterpilla­r rival

51 Risky-to-eat puffer fish dish

52 Marsh duck

53 It may be a tall one

54 Columnist Bombeck

55 Therapists’ org.

56 Guy

57 Apply

58 Capt.’s heading

61 Troubling bank msg.

 ?? By Paul Coulter ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ?? 10/1/21
By Paul Coulter ©2021 Tribune Content Agency 10/1/21

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