CROSSWORD II
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1 As bad as it gets 6 Computer drop-down 10 Mediterranean strip 14 Dieter’s temptation 15 Middle East republic 16 Mine finds 17 A newsmaker 20 Two pills, often 21 Course after trig 22 Shoed thing 23 Brownish horses 25 Optimally 27 Melancholy 30 Relaxing place 31 Object of devotion 32 “How unfortunate!” 34 Arabian peninsula country 36 Glenn Gould’s instrument 40 “Got other things going on?” 43 Mister in Mexico 44 Clear a hurdle? 45 Achy 46 Crafty, clever 48 Gentle bite 50 Mute salute 51 Brunette’s opposite 54 Ice-cold 56 Sushi delicacy 57 Respectively 59 New York city 63 Certainly not Latin and Sumerian 66 Yet another time 67 Author Morrison 68 Poetry’s opposite 69 Super dry 70 Libra stone 71 Damascus site
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1 June Cleaver’s TV husband 2 Cookie brand 3 Enormous mythical birds 4 Apply jelly 5 Sensual dances 6 Start for “night” or “wife” 7 Benet and Idle 8 Letters on a shuttle 9 Quite naked 10 Periodical White House address? 11 Rocky prominence 12 Many make nothing 13 Up till now 18 Brewing aid 19 Army critters? 24 To be specific 26 Wedded state? 27 Mouth off 28 Burn soother 29 Sunrise time 31 Committable? 33 Put on display 35 Tap offering 37 Soonish, old-style 38 Detective Wolfe 39 Was in the red 41 Having less rainfall 42 Play postscript (var.) 47 Simple shack 49 Calendar models 51 Areas around altars 52 Sierra ___, Africa 53 More advanced in years 54 Accra’s country 55 Term of affection 58 Hoofbeat 60 Composer Stravinsky 61 Lucy’s hubby 62 Floating on the briny 64 Palindrome in the pasture 65 Nothing in Nottingham