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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Donation sticker words

6 Unskilled in

11 “Have we __?”

14 Thread holder

15 Upscale Honda brand

16 Passed-down tales

17 *Barbie-inspired doll on “The Simpsons”

19 Surface measure

20 __ fever

21 Many a Henry James heroine

23 Spice in pumpkin spice, often

26 Field for a 23-Down

28 “Purgatorio” poet

29 Justin from Canada

31 *”OK, gotta go!”

34 Supplement

35 Pundit piece

36 *Free baseball, so to speak

42 “If it __ broke ... “

43 Hall’s Hall of Fame partner

46 *Limb for Jaime Sommers or Steve Austin

51 Gospel writer enshrined in a Venice basilica

52 Metallica’s “__ It Sleeps”

53 Startled cry

55 Actress Turley of “Mad Men”

56 Drops by

59 One more than tri

61 Basketball target

62 Service offered by 18-Down, and what’s happening in the answers to the starred clues

67 Cagey

68 Motionless

69 Bit part

70 Consumed

71 Last word

72 Japanese city that’s home to Nijo Castle

DOWN

1 Belief system

2 Dean’s list fig.

3 Web pioneer

4 Larynx

5 Idris of “The Suicide Squad”

6 Bare-bones

7 “Don’t delay!”

8 “Levitating” singer __ Lipa

9 Structure stabilized by a keystone

10 Actor Diggs

11 EGOT winner Rita

12 1974 hit with Spanish lyrics

13 Social service?

16 Any Super Bowl LVI-winning player

18 Lyft competitor

22 Emphatic denial

23 Degree for future execs

24 Succor

25 Formally surrender

27 Like some vivid colors

30 Necessitat­es

32 Hosp. worker

33 Tropical garland

37 Cars singer Ocasek

38 Actress de Armas

39 Humble self-appraisal

40 Radioactiv­e emission

41 Lisa Loeb’s biggest hit

44 Miscalcula­te

45 Calypso-influenced genre

46 Malarkey

47 Really pumped

48 “Lawrence of Arabia” star

49 Kinda chilly

50 Angled joints

51 “Late Night” host after Jimmy

54 Gnocchi sauce

57 Crocus kin

58 Designer Ricci

60 Ribs order

63 TV actress Susan

64 Brief “As I see things”

65 Accounting figure

66 Gloppy stuff

 ?? By Alan Massengill and Doug Peterson ©2023 Tribune Content Agency ?? 7/12/23
By Alan Massengill and Doug Peterson ©2023 Tribune Content Agency 7/12/23

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