The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 MATCHING PAIRS

- By Alex Eaton-salners

ACROSS

1 “Ditto”

6 Monitor for TV?

9 Persuasive

assignment

14 Company in a 2001

fraud scandal

15 Evian, par exemple

16 Hot, frothy drink

17 *Leslie Odom Jr.’s Tony-winning “Hamilton” role

19 Goryeo Dynasty’s

land, once

20 Roofer’s supply

21 Deviate from the

script

23 Popular site for a

stud

24 Latin epic poem

26 *Marine plant that

grows in beds

29 Word after “jet” or

“time”

30 Paleo’s opposite

32 “___ the way you

think”

33 Soft lock

35 Places for

sweaters?

38 Like some tape ... and each starred clue’s answer, based on its first and last two letters?

41 They may have

creaky boards

42 Stonehenge

worshipper

45 Mandolin’s kin

47 Regret

DOWN

1 ___ otter

2 Experienci­ng great

success

3 Like some

marriages

4 “G.I. Jane” star

Demi

5 Cozy stopover

6 Prolonged quarrel

7 “The Very Hungry Caterpilla­r” author Eric

8 Marie who was the first winner of two Nobel Prizes

9 Grand Teton beast

10 ___ Tome and

Principe

11 Run out of pants? © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

49 Earth-friendly

prefix

50 *Rib cook-off need

53 Some weight

lifters

55 Devour

56 Ivory and Irish

Spring products

58 ___ Peter to pay

Paul

59 Activist Thunberg

62 *License to drill?

65 Fire-setting crime

66 Ernie of golf

67 Exposed as a fraud,

e.g.

68 Waiting in the

wings, perhaps

69 Actor’s workplace

70 Jawaharlal in Indian

history

12 “Relax,” to a drill

instructor

13 Many moons

18 Said, as a farewell

22 Russian pancakes

24 PC key that modifies other keys’ functions

25 Narrow-minded

27 Comparativ­ely

pleased

28 Choir platform

31 Nobel Peace

Center’s home

34 First sound in

“Georgia”

36 ___ Lingus (Irish

carrier)

37 Cold War initials

39 Yeltsin of the

37-Down

40 Straight up?

43 Brew that’s frozen

during production

44 Cinco menos tres

45 Pizza Hut

competitor

46 Exam for an

aspiring Mensan

48 Sch. in La Jolla

50 Started

51 Gold deposits,

perhaps

52 Big spoon, of a sort

54 Have a dispute

57 Vowelless

summons

60 Excessivel­y

61 ___ Arbor

63 Many, many moons

64 End of Brown’s URL

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