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ACROSS

1 Crunchy sandwiches with mayo

5 Prepare, as avocados for guacamole 9 Impulsive speed 14 Uncommon

15 __ gobi: vegetarian

curry dish 16 Grouch on TV 17 Off-Broadway

award

18 Prefix with second

or bot

19 Beach shoe 20 Present

surroundin­gs? 23 Taco topping 24 Lav

25 Faux __

28 Sci-fi aviators 29 Audio cassette

successor 34 Common __ 35 Little bit

36 Jeans option 42 Away from shore 43 Nose-in-the-air

type

44 One with pressing

needs?

48 Fuss 51 Horn-heavy genre 52 Communicat­ion syst. in which an ILY gesture means “I love you” 53 Rubber-__ shoes 55 Shredded, or an apt descriptio­n of 20-, 29-, 36-, and 44-Across 60 Slacks alternativ­e 62 Sweetheart 63 Ductwork sealer 64 Frenemy, maybe 65 Start of a German

count? 66 Decorates, as

cookies

67 “Hello” Grammy

winner

68 Film scene shot without interrupti­on 69 Amazon icon

DOWN

1 Window-shop 2 Animal in many 3-Down 3 Experiment­s 4 Trickles (in) 5 Finger painting, for short?

6 Ruck of HBO’s “Succession” 7 “Hello,” for one 8 Hullabaloo 9 Communal Asian meal with simmering broth 10 Tennis legend Arthur

11 Desert stinger 12 Beach tone 13 Unit of energy 21 Indiana cager 22 NYC rep since 2019 26 Italian wine region 27 Bamboozle

30 Four quarters 31 Bks. in progress 32 “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” novelist Marisha 33 Food plan 34 Airbnb visit, say 36 Finger-paints,

perhaps

37 Doesn’t seem to be

hurt

38 Tranquiliz­er

39 Cut off

40 Mama deer 41 Latissimus __: back

muscle 45 Skirmish

46 Team with four Women’s World Cup titles

47 “Yeah, right!” 48 Vicuña

descendant 49 More meaningful 50 Most peculiar 54 Eye-related

56 __ history

57 A Skywalker twin 58 Hard pull 59 Subterfuge 60 Mme., in Madrid 61 Minor character?

 ?? ©2023 Tribune Content Agency By Barbara Lin & Carly Schuna 11/15/23 ??
©2023 Tribune Content Agency By Barbara Lin & Carly Schuna 11/15/23

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