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Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Feathered Nile wader

5 Tropical hardwoods

10 Title of respect

14 Have a flat?

15 Barbera’s partner in cartoons

16 Sea eagle

17 Designer Schiaparel­li

18 Moving

19 Journalist Jacob

20 Sustained nuclear chain reaction requiremen­t

23 Room where you may have to stoop

26 One working with dough

27 Really botch things

31 Port and claret

32 __-Magnon

33 The Cowboys of the NCAA’s Big 12

34 __ one’s time: waited

35 Haphazard

38 Tires (out)

40 Give in to the munchies

41 __ green

44 Emmy nominee Fischer of “The Office”

45 Edible seaweed

48 1992 Disney film featuring a magic lamp

50 Wild West brothers

51 A breeze to use, in adspeak

55 Moscow news acronym

56 Retired racehorses, often

57 Thames museum

61 35-Down house

62 “I give!”

63 Ticklish Muppet

64 Inexact figs.

65 “My heavens!”

66 Prince’s “Purple __”

DOWN

1 Intense anger

2 __ Paese: Italian cheese

3 GEICO product: abbr.

4 One of Barbie’s siblings

5 Pad __

6 Right direction?

7 Opposed

8 Madison Square Garden hoopsters

9 Clear wrap

10 Mythologic­al swimmers

11 Daughter of King Minos

12 Liqueur flavoring

13 Mr. and Mr.

21 HDTV maker

22 Explorer with Clark

23 “Preacher” network

24 Black goo

25 Ref’s ruling

28 Zingers

29 That, in Tegucigalp­a

30 More definite

34 Informatio­n units

35 Tegucigalp­a’s country

36 Tablets that can’t be swallowed

37 __ tai

38 Jai alai balls

39 Observing Ramadan, say

41 __ favor

42 Sixth sense letters

43 Stubborn beast

44 Muppet who plays lead guitar in The Electric Mayhem

45 Baseball division

46 Blokes

47 Become an expert in

49 Point of contention

52 Killer whale

53 Blend

54 Doesn’t allow to rust

58 Mobile’s st.

59 “Enough gory details, thanks”

60 Ages and ages

 ??  ?? Puzzle by Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette 8/16/17
Puzzle by Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette 8/16/17

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