UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS

1 Be of benefit 6 Rani’s servant 10 Clavicle, for one 14 Jargon

15 Solar plexus 16 Poet’s black 17 Prudential rival 18 Clump of dirt 19 Burglar’s “key” 20 Expression 21 Sparrow or starling

Deli bread

Bug repellent Mathematician — Descartes

Surprise attack Says hoarsely Thurman of “The Golden Bowl” — -a-brac Lampoon

Razed

Lunar phase (2 wds.)

Deleted computer files

Ferret feet

Sturm — Drang “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer

Sulk

Gives the pink slip Textile colorers Understood 23 25 26

29 31 36

37 38 39 41

42

43 44 45

46 47 48 50 52 56

60 61 62 63

64 65

66

67 68

Birthday items Socially inept ones

Average grades Claw badly Smuggle

Without delay, briefly

Light tan

Give spiritual instruction Daybreak, in verse

Poet’s contraction Screams and shouts

DOWN

1 Kyrgyzstan range 2 Competed

3 Con

4 Let pass

5 Like good soil 6 Spark coil outputs 7 Tuneful

8 Righted a wrong 9 Yard enclosure 10 Wallop

11 Reed instrument 12 Roulette color 13 Wind up 22 Sipping tools 24 Went wrong 26 Governed 27 Nail-groomer 28 Of ships

7-16-20

30 32 33 34 35 37 38 40 41 43 46 47 49

Give alms Midnight teller Red Cloud, e.g. Liable

Emails

Mixtures

Plied a needle That, to Jaime Doze off

Model’s concern Threaten

Items of business Gulf nation

51

52 53 54

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57 58 59

60

Auto-racing family

Tijuana dinero Caboose’s spot “NBA Friday” broadcaster Run words together Horse’s brake Mad

“The — the limit!” Eccentric part