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Across

1 Bewildered 6 Public row 11 Friend 14 Missouri tribe 15 Lake that ultimately feeds 8

Down 16 “__ we good?” 17 Bingeing on chicken pieces? 19 Meadow 20 Vote against 21 Employee’s request 22 Tale of Achilles and Agamem

non 24 Tasting room container 25 Soon, to a bard 26 Roman naturalist’s baseball

playing namesake? 33 Climbing and passing places 34 Preserves, in a way 35 “Hooray!” 36 Inch, e.g. 37 Source of the fairy-tale sequence that creates four long puzzle puns 39 Interlaced 40 Executive gp. 41 Chart entries 42 Tailed orbiter 43 Prize coveted by competitive

trees? 47 Negotiate a green 48 Echelon 49 Airport conveyors, or what are

sometimes placed on them 51 Wispy clouds 53 Spanish she-bear 56 __ Today 57 Sports Officialdom Illustrated

cover image? 60 Apple product 61 Superficial 62 Boredom 63 Take to court 64 Is crowded (with) 65 Falls from the sky

Down

1 Low 2 Nearly 9% of Earth’s surface

area 3 Half-baked 4 Chicken producer 5 Pays a share of 6 Arab leader 7 Subjects of bovine mastication 8 Lake ultimately fed by 15

Across 9 Denial from Denis 10 Auto mechanic’s concerns 11 Pop or tot, e.g. 12 Bailiwick 13 Heavy metal 18 Right on the map 23 Web prefix with cat 24 Tech review website 25 “__ Nobody’s Business”: blues

standard 26 Assess the depth of 27 “Blue Sky” Oscar winner 28 Where everything should be 29 Online money 30 Ventilation source 31 Roof edges 32 “I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands” speaker 37 Donation 38 Big comm. company, once 39 __ load 41 Trendy nightclub 42 Pine, e.g. 44 Son of Akhenaten 45 Box score statistic 46 Gambling game involving

matching cards 49 Borrows without returning 50 Jacob’s brother 51 Dove home 52 List part 53 Hyatt competitor 54 Like a web 55 Sale warning 58 Tint 59 Duessa’s foe in Spenser’s “The

Faerie Queene”