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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Drains of energy 5 Prefix with sphere 9 Jousting weapon 14 Drive-__ ATM 15 Have to have 16 Negatively charged

particle

17 Many millennia 18 Surrealist Salvador 19 Muscular 20 *Broadcast quality determined by a car antenna

23 NFL six-pointers 24 Beer barrel

25 One, in Germany 26 *Sine or cosine, for

short

32 Mongolia’s

continent

34 Load, as cargo 35 Movement-sensing

game console 36 Get set, casually 37 Fireplace ducts 39 “You said the same

thing as me!” 40 Go kaput

41 Sheet music

symbol

42 Really, really stinky 43 *Issue best kept

within the clan 47 Cry inconsolab­ly 48 “__ go time!” 49 Boxer’s stat 52 Tongue-in-cheek descriptio­n of a mullet, and of the answers to the starred clues 57 Move rapidly

toward

58 Sweetie

59 Double Stuf cookie 60 Cosmeticia­n

Lauder

61 “Yes, let’s do it!” 62 Actor Sharif 63 Youngster 64 Sitcom

background­s 65 Breathe hard

DOWN

1 Microwave button 2 Coming up

3 Urges along 4 Gymnast Lee who won a gold medal at the 2020 Olympics

5 Nobel Peace Prize

winner Sakharov 6 Hard-boiled

Chinese snack 7 Sporty Spice of the

Spice Girls 8 Garfield’s drooling

frenemy 9 Crisscross pie crust

pattern

10 Bless with oil

11 Yucatán boy

12 Last name of filmmakers Ethan and Joel 13 Come to a close 21 Bhindi masala pod 22 Isn’t yet decided 26 Felt-__ marker 27 Material in a lint

trap

28 Abu Dhabi’s fed. 29 “Victory is mine!” 30 Pigpen grunt

31 Put the kibosh on 32 “Eri tu,” but not

“Eres Tu”

33 Look like

36 Many an email

attachment 37 Low-altitude

airplane pass 38 “Miss Saigon” Tony winner Salonga

39 Salsa container 41 Formed clumps 42 Get out of bed 44 Holy Land nation 45 Step-counting

device

46 Capital of Greece 49 Cosmic balance 50 Salty expanse 51 Hybrid garment 52 Pull’s opposite 53 Voting against 54 Bird in Egyptian

art

55 First line on a

form, often 56 “Touched your

nose!” sound 57 TiVo remote

button

 ?? ©2022 Tribune Content Agency By Stella Zawistowsk­i ?? 6/21/22
©2022 Tribune Content Agency By Stella Zawistowsk­i 6/21/22

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