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Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 “Dawn of the Dead”

(1978) director 7 Street, in Stuttgart 14 *Billboard entry 16 “S’pose so”

17 First of a film series

about Damien Thorn 18 Cultural environmen­ts 19 Marines NCO 20 *Upright instrument

in a bluegrass band 22 Head of Hollywood 24 Switchback feature 25 Bordeaux wine 28 Hankering

30 Mauna __ 33 19-Across boss 34 Conniption

35 “Oh, crud!”

36 *Place to land when there’s no land in sight

40 Span. miss

41 “U R 2 funny!” 42 Goosebump-inducing 43 Neptune’s realm 44 Hot state 45 Irritating inconvenie­nce 46 Post-Manhattan Project org. 47 Selling points? 49 *LensCrafte­rs products 53 Grouch

57 “Let’s talk in my office”

58 Word in many hymns 60 “Inka Dinka Doo” singer 61 Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common

62 Son of Clytemnest­ra 63 Campaign ugliness DOWN 1 Official accts. 2 Sounds of amazement 3 Compressed video file format 4 Abstruse knowledge

5 Com can follow it 6 At all

7 “The Urbz: __ in the City”: video game 8 Long-odds bet 9 It’s often put on a dog

10 Litmus reddeners 11 Short itinerary? 12 Motown music 13 First word of Massachuse­tts’ motto

15 Pest in a swarm 21 Lazy

23 Stag, for one 25 Elegance 26 French wine valley 27 Main artery

29 It may be nervous 30 Hibernatio­n spots 31 NBC newsman Roger

32 Come to terms 35 Specificat­ion regarding threads 37 Like many steakhouse menus 38 London bank? 39 Harvest

44 Give in 45 Unmannerly sorts, in Canadian slang 46 Turkish honorifics 48 Window box plant 49 Opposite of exo50 Part of FYI 51 Raison d’__ 52 Witnesses 54 Latvian capital 55 Taiwan-based computer giant 56 Gershwin heroine 59 Parsons of “Hidden Figures”

 ??  ?? Puzzle by Pancho Harrison 7/27/17
Puzzle by Pancho Harrison 7/27/17

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