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1 Geometry numbers

6 Shows displeasur­e (at)

11 Part of A&E?

14 Absorb

15 Ferrell’s “SNL” cheerleadi­ng partner

16 Card-beats-card game

17 Fan on a farm?

19 Shakespear­ean title noun

20 Bee attraction

21 Wrestling place

22 “Armageddon” author

23 Chain founded by Ingvar Kamprad

25 Movie trailers

27 Hors d’oeuvres for a horror movie?

31 “Gotcha!”

32 Head of Paris

33 Like some escapes

37 Done in

39 AOL, e.g.

41 Aria, say

42 Watch all night, maybe

45 Topers

48 High flier until 2001

49 Surveillan­ce snacks?

52 Make like the original

55 Hurry away

56 Place for a bid

57 Arabic “son of ”

59 Syrup once used as a poison remedy

63 No-frills bed

64 Finishing touch for a gastropod?

66 Aussie school

67 Cellist Casals 68 Capone henchman known as “The Enforcer”

69 Whiskey choice

70 Sales rep’s friendly personalit­y, e.g.

71 Early computer

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1 Part of NCAA: Abbr.

2 “Dirty Jobs” host Mike

3 Large-scale tale 4 Pretzel chain __ Anne’s

5 Deliver an address for

6 Soft cry

7 __ smasher

8 Tell

9 Many a junior high student

10 Polite title

11 Clued in

12 Zenith’s opposite

13 Slag

18 Liqueur word

22 Password creators

24 “Hamlet” beginning

26 Solid-rock link

27 Emotional outbursts

28 Guitarist Atkins

29 “I am woman, hear me __ ... ”: Helen Reddy lyric

30 “Steppenwol­f” author

34 Former Dallas QB Tony

35 Hodgepodge

36 “Agreed!”

38 Irritable

40 Sound accompanyi­ng a disappeara­nce

43 From __ Z

44 Places to tie up

46 Spring bloom

47 Start of a job

50 Skewered foods

51 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ __”: 1964 hit

52 Arise anew

53 Dark wood

54 “Sonatine Bureaucrat­ique” composer

58 Africa’s Blue __

60 __ Field: Mets’ home

61 Whodunit dog

62 Geek __

64 Place for a peel

65 “’Salem’s __”: Stephen King novel

 ?? By Jim Holland ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ?? 10/14/21
By Jim Holland ©2021 Tribune Content Agency 10/14/21

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