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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Apply softly

4 Indy 500 leader 11 About 40 gallons of it usually makes a gallon of syrup 14 GPS calculatio­n 15 Mollusk with a

nacreous shell 16 Gp. for moms and

dads

17 Particles from far,

far away

20 Burger topping 21 23andMe subject 22 Lena Dunham TV

show

23 Dog topping

25 To wit 26 Wind-driven

clouds 28 Hereditary unit 29 Riddle end, maybe 32 2001 NBA MVP

Allen

36 Goal 37 Student, ideally 39 Runner Down

Under

40 Zoom alternativ­e 42 Race part 43 Over 45 Brazilian soccer

great 46 Responds to a phone solicitati­on, perhaps 48 Improvs, e.g. 49 Eye-bending genre 51 Fiennes of “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

53 Drops off before

midday?

55 Easy throw 56 “Later”

57 Words With

Friends, for one 60 Post-teaching title

for some 62 Latvia neighbor 64 Fluorescen­t

element?

65 Like many a

wedding planner 66 “It’s just a flesh

wound” 67 Repair crew with

tiles

DOWN

1 Interior designer’s specialty

2 Make reparation­s 3 Margherita pizza herb

4 It tops out at ten in a doctor’s office 5 “Mixed-ish” airer 6 Calling or playing follower

7 Stylish vigor 8 Musical symbol resembling a set of crosshairs

9 Young Darth 10 When the Cold War ended 11 Pinnacle of religion? 12 Coral island 13 Violet hybrid 18 Like eyes starting

to tear up

19 Dingy kitchen

item?

24 “A Treatise of Human Nature” author 25 Campbell of

“Scream” films 27 Ease up

28 Spiced brew 29 Paper-nest builder 30 Backpack, e.g. 31 1926 Pulitzerwi­nning poet 33 Dramatic shift ... or what’s literally found in each set of circles? 34 Neglect to mention 35 Sisters in the 2017 film “The Little Hours”

38 Excite, with “up” 41 Exuberance 44 Gender __ 46 Undergroun­d

recess

47 Declines

50 Flared dress style 52 Released

53 Arnaz of early TV 54 Painter Nolde 58 Place to drop a line 59 Paw parts

61 1860s gray

63 Klutz

 ?? By August Miller ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ??
By August Miller ©2021 Tribune Content Agency

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