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Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Draft day announceme­nts 6 In-tents experience? 10 Like some dental floss 14 End of __

15 Jai __ 16 Wrapped up 17 Artifact

18 Board member? 19 Unites 20 Volleyball players in Dublin?

23 New York’s __ Island 24 Sturgeon delicacy 25 Engineerin­g sch. on

the Hudson River 28 Euros in Rome? 32 Deadly snake

35 White House signing

ceremony memento 36 __ Trinket, “The Hunger Games” chaperone played by Elizabeth Banks 37 Airport inspectors in Beijing? 42 Cosmonaut Vladimir 43 Partner of abet 44 Most of Ariz. doesn’t observe it 45 Dance lessons in Madrid?

50 CIA predecesso­r 51 Drivers’ org. 52 Phillies’ div. 56 Number cruncher in New Delhi?

59 SALT subject 62 Crab Key villain 63 Mazda MX-5, familiarly

64 Witty tweet, e.g. 65 Novelist O’Brien 66 Bunsen burner kin 67 Small ticks?

68 Travel aimlessly 69 One of Franklin’s two

certaintie­s DOWN 1 Musée d’Orsay city 2 Still 3 Salsa singer Cruz 4 Spring 2008 “Dancing with the Stars” champion Yamaguchi 5 Potpourri pouch 6 Wedding reception sight

7 Hit the ground 8 Hindu incantatio­n 9 Word with carrier or passenger 10 Floors

11 Abbr. in many addresses 12 Crossed (out)

13 Jr. and sr.

21 Loses it 22 Lutelike instrument 25 Served seconds, say 26 Figure skating event 27 In other words, in other words 29 Novelist Harper 30 Quechua speakers 31 He served as A.G. under his brother 32 “Don’t __ innocent” 33 Port arrivals 34 Pockets for falafel 38 Start to skid? 39 French spa

40 Strike

41 Utopias

46 More melancholy 47 Bob, for one

48 Like peacocks 49 Many a Mideast native 53 Appliance maker since 1934

54 Attack 55 Vandalize 56 Rascals 57 Kendrick of “Pitch Perfect” 58 “Syntactic Structures” author Chomsky 59 Nos. averaging 100 60 What a shark strikes with

61 Wite-Out maker

 ?? Puzzle by David Poole ??
Puzzle by David Poole

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