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1 Have over

5 “A Land More Kind Than Home” novelist Wiley

9 Mary-in-mourning sculpture

14 1968 self-titled live folk album

15 Baseball family name

16 Cruise stopovers

17 More than a little unkind

18 Dozes off

19 Magazine featuring Pencil Pointers

20 S

23 “Gloria in Excelsis __”

24 Shelter adoptee 28 C

32 Cornfield cries 33 Total

34 Joe

35 Dilutes

36 “The Street” novelist Petry

37 Thoughts

39 Feel unwell

40 Canine kiss

41 Not too keen

42 B

46 Looking to add staff

47 100% 48 Evolutiona­ry mysteries, and a feature of three clues in this puzzle

55 Swing for the fences

58 Summer hangout

59 Stock exchange membership

60 Tourney format 61 Boo-boo

62 Flooring preference

63 Hatha yoga posture

64 Patches potholes, say

65 Quick cut

DOWN

1 “Good Omens” actor Jon

2 Cookie with a Cakesters variety

3 Balkan native

4 Soft-pedal

5 “1812 Overture” instrument

6 Facial tissue additive

7 Pop

8 Tamale wrapper

9 Milne friend who notes, “It is hard to be brave when you’re a Very Small Animal”

10 “It’s my call”

11 Blight-stricken tree 12 Bit of concert merch

13 Donkey

21 Sneetches creator

22 Nation that follows the Solar Hijri calendar 25 Caravan mounts

26 Customary

27 Gate postings, briefly

28 “__ Moon”: manga series

29 Pull the plug on

30 Light weight

31 Squeals (on)

32 Bowlful served with a cinnamon roll in the Midwest

35 RPM gauge

37 Poem of rustic life

38 Opposite sides of a rather pointed fight?

40 Record holders

43 Apelike

44 Challengin­g puzzle

45 Aerie nesters

49 Espy

50 Skunk River state

51 Gritty film genre

52 “Ja” opposite

53 Hindu goddess of destructio­n

54 Manual component

55 Transcript fig.

56 Hosp. areas

57 Fluffy wrap

 ?? ?? By Ben Tolkin ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 7/15/22
By Ben Tolkin ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 7/15/22

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