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ACROSS

1 Soccer star Lionel with seven Ballon d’Or awards

6 Spreadshee­t line

9 Hope __

14 Water brand

15 Poetic prepositio­n

16 Name tag word

17 Good advice for an angry person / Bad advice for a novice dairy farmer

20 Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” e.g.

21 Rhythm-heavy genre

22 Mole

23 Fine __

25 Historical times

28 Good advice for a complainer / Bad advice for someone blowing out birthday candles

34 Wild beast also called a wildebeest

35 “Pull up a chair”

36 Fume

37 Blake who played Aunt Harriet on TV’s “Batman”

40 Lower limb

42 Go bad

43 Off topic

45 Repurposed tee, maybe

47 Directed

48 Good advice for a nervous public speaker / Bad advice for an impersonat­or

52 Price-slashing event

53 Back muscles, for short

54 Brief chances?

57 T’ai __ ch’uan

59 Newsstand stack

63 Good advice for an impatient person / Bad advice for a Chippendal­es dancer

67 In vogue again

68 Lunes or martes

69 Tucci’s “Road to

Perdition” role

70 Far-out type?

71 Belief suffix

72 Prepare, as an infusion

DOWN

1 Rx orders

2 Cooking staple, initially

3 Ireland’s __ Féin

4 GPS technology, for short

5 “We can share this hiding place!”

6 Gun

7 Miner concerns

8 More watered down

9 Comedian Margaret

10 Cut down

11 Colonnade trees

12 High-five sound

13 Broadway award

18 Legal dept. staffers

19 Potato nutrients, for short

24 Potting material

26 Greek war god

27 Filter (through)

28 Complete fiasco

29 Some German imports

30 In __: unborn

31 Island formation

32 “The Book __”: Markus Zusak novel

33 Grasped

34 Key with one sharp, briefly

38 Grasps

39 Idris of “Cats”

41 Ancient France

44 Car battery pioneer

46 Result of some plotting

49 Violinist Menuhin 50 Sullies

51 Global fashion brand founded in San Francisco in 1968

54 Gumbo vegetable

55 Spa treatment

56 70-Across-hunting org.

58 Pupil’s place

60 Kitchen addition?

61 Learning method

62 Salon sound

64 Not post65 “Round __ Virgin, Mother and Child ... “

66 Actor Waterston

 ?? By Dan Margolis ©2023 Tribune Content Agency ??
By Dan Margolis ©2023 Tribune Content Agency

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