Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle

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ACROSS

First name in old horror films They’re earned at U’s Serious wound

13 Suit, so to

speak

14 Artist Matisse 15 Start to

freeze?

16 __ fail 17 Polished

orator?

19 Like C’s, in

some cases 20 One way to go

to a party 21 Steak __ 22 Indication that the coffee is ready? 25 One in a large

octet 28 Southernmost of the Southeast’s Sea Islands 32 Main line 33 Palindromic

title

36 Skiff movers 37 Corp. money

manager 38 Regret the choice of wall paint color? 41 Is, once

42 “__ Shanter”:

Burns poem 44 Dance

movement 45 Bridge along

the Arno 47 Golf lesson

topic 49 Becomes

aware of 50 Carol Burnett, at the end of an episode? 54 Like some online purchases 57 Small case 58 Field unit 62 1996 Demi Moore film

... and a hint to how four puzzle answers were created 64 Post

65 Cry of success 66 Sign of early

spring 67 Senior __ 68 Errors, say 69 PC

connections 70 Gels

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6

DOWN

Half a sex- ed metaphor, with “the” Trade show Floral necklaces Explanation Financial statement items China’s Zhou __ 7

System of shorthand

8 Warm the bench Probe that visited Jupiter

10 “She’s a Lady” songwriter British WWII gun

12 Put on

14 “Who __?!”: “Join the club!”

18 NBA commissioner Silver

23 Bring up 24 First killer whale to perform with a human 25 Accords

26 For dieters, in

ads

27 Coffee

asset

29 They may be

manicured 30 Steaming 31 Beasts of

burden

33 Ran into 34 Half a

sawbuck 9 11 35 Zugspitze,

e. g. 39 Manipulative

sort 40 Olympics fencing event

43 Ice cream

purchase 46 Parts of

cloverleafs 48 Yokum

cartoonist 49 Irving Berlin’s

“Blue __” 51 Signs of crowd displeasure 52 Online

biz 53 Deceptions 54 Goddess usually depicted holding an ankh

55 Food package

amt. 56 Bizet’s “Habanera,” e. g. 59 Diligence 60 Comedy club

hit

61 Stately

trees

63 Bit

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Wednesday’s Answer: Fishing