Wonderword

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ACROSS

Mary Oliver, e.g. Tweak Obliterate in a flash Prefix with sphere Self-moving vacuum

“I __ you one” High-tech classroom Starchy grain 20 Bygone Persian rulers Long-jawed fish 22 Present 23 Fighter at the Olympics Man-horse hybrid 30 Synagogue

reading 31 Country between Vietnam and Thailand 32 Quaint

contraction 34 Type of coffee or whiskey Congressional statute 38 Military

IDs ... or what 17-, 23-, 51- and 61-Across have

Life highlights, briefly 42 Moby-Dick,

e.g.

44 Hula

strings 45 Pungent

quality

46 Rice dish 37 41 49 “The Shawshank Redemption” extras Court long shot

54 __ hog

55 Org. whose returns were never sales 56 Get to 60 Trellis climber 61 Astute

attorney 64 Golf peg, or where it’s used

65 Long cold

spell 66 Image in a botanical print

67 Make a typo,

say

68 Litter box

visitor 69 Pre-Easter

season 51

DOWN

D.C. influence gps. “However,” in tweets “Handsome, clever, and rich” Jane Austen character Headwear with tails Works on walls Stag’s mate Longtime Univision news anchor Ramos Two dots above a vowel Pizza chain in many food courts

Bar bill Madagascar!, in the Bronx In the know Pan in Neverland Inst. with the fight song “On, Brave Old Army Team” 22 Frost 24 Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of __-Tune)” 25 H.S. subject that covers all the angles? 26 Jewish

ritual 10 11

12 13

18 27 Jaguar’s weapon 28 Individually 29 “Fat chance!” 33 “The Simpsons” disco devotee 35 Locale 36 Soil-clearing

tools

38 Mark for

omission 39 Related 40 Wellmannered man

43 Made up

things 45 Reveal

everything 47 Individually 48 Draw a blank 50 Nothing but 51 Done to death 52 Float in the air 53 Actor Oscar __ of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Pulitzerwinning author James 58 Close-knit

group

59 Test by lifting 61 Backtalk 62 Alternative to

JFK or EWR 63 Perfecta or

trifecta 57 HOW TO PLAY:

CIRCLE THEIR LETTERS ONLY. DO NOT CIRCLE THE WORD. Aroma, Audience, Barbecue, Beef, Bowl, Burn, Carrot, Charcoal, Chef, Chicken, Chopsticks, Cook, Culinary, Eggs, Fire, Fish, Fried, Grill, Heat, Iron, Japan, Lobster, Meal, Meat, Metal, Mild, Noodles, Oils, Onion, Open, Plate, Porcelain, Pork, Rice, Salmon, Sauce, Scallop, Seafood, Shichirin, Skillet, Soy, Steak, Stove, Table, Teppanyaki, Tofu, Traditional

Tuesday’s Answer: Painter