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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Monastery figure 6 Move quickly, as

clouds

10 Speak up?

14 Jazz singer Vaughan known as “The Divine One”

15 Despise

16 Lingerie trim

17 Speak from a

lectern

18 “C’est la vie”

19 Bronze, Iron, et al.

20 *Fried fare traditiona­lly wrapped in newspaper

23 “Allow me”

24 Pal

28 Rx

31 *Missing nothing

34 Colorful South

Asian garments

35 Veer off course, as a rocket

36 __ Dhabi

37 *With 40-Across, defenders of the Holy Grail

40 See 37-Across

43 Golf hole meas.

44 “Bingo!”

46 Straight up

47 *Monkeys, e.g.

50 Pfizer rival

51 Lightens up

52 Grocery cart unit

54 “Do it now!,” and what can be said about the answers to the starred clues

61 __ carotene

64 Travel aimlessly

65 Clamor

66 Depleted Asian lake

67 Journey

68 Familiar “Who’s there?” reply

69 Jokes

70 __ cracker

71 Like dry mud on cleats

DOWN

1 Starting from

2 Italian port on the Adriatic

3 Garments with hooks

4 Part of a swearingin ceremony

5 Community with barn raisings

6 Suitable for hosta

7 Turn to stone

8 Four Corners state

9 Javier’s “Being the Ricardos” role

10 Flat panel TV type

11 Ride (on)

12 Card worth four points in evaluating a bridge hand

13 “Bingo!”

21 Snooze

22 Cooking spray

25 Slanted, as some writing

26 “Retreat!!”

27 Sky blue

28 Oh of “Killing Eve”

29 Urgent event

30 Fix badly?

32 Tell (on)

33 Be in debt

34 Zoom alternativ­e

38 Tit for __

39 __ shed

41 “Super heroes must eat oats” for the Great Lakes, e.g.

42 __ favor

45 “Let me repeat ...

“48 Bronze, iron, et al.

49 Fire pit residue

50 Chaps

53 Super Bowl LV city

55 The “A” in many degrees

56 Fatty tuna, at a sushi bar

57 Personnel list

58 Spine component

59 “Twilight” vampire Cullen

60 Wetlands plant

61 Sack

62 “It’s the end of an __”

63 Label

 ?? By Alexander Liebeskind & Jeff Chen ©2022 Tribune Content Agency ?? 7/13/22
By Alexander Liebeskind & Jeff Chen ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 7/13/22

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