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Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Brock Wilson 12/18/17

ACROSS

1 Trains with a view of the street below 4 Second-string squad 9 Cherokee and Wrangler 14 VCR go-back button 15 1945 “Big Three” conference city

16 “Snowy” bird 17 Shunning public utilities and such

20 “Blame It __”: Caine

film

21 Continenta­l coin 22 Even-steven

26 Twelfths of yrs.

29 “Say what?” responses 30 Horror film reaction 33 __ fatso: bit of Archie Bunker language-mangling 37 World games org. 38 Oktoberfes­t dance 39 Respond to cries of “Encore!” 43 Delivery doc 44 Prefix with natal 45 Breathe like a hot dog 46 “You can’t leave this way” sign 48 Soprano superstar 50 Notepad file extension 51 Is totally in the dark 56 Classic 900 automaker 58 No-brainer 60 Where to find the last words of 17-, 22-, 39and 51-Across

66 Cry of dismay from

Charlie Brown

67 Grape holders 68 McKellen of “X-Men” 69 Minor, as a complaint 70 Online social appointmen­t

71 Z’s 10, in Scrabble: abbr.

DOWN 1 Therefore 2 British pop singer Lewis

3 Ice cream pattern 4 “Golly!”

5 Lao Tzu principle 6 Helper in Santa’s workshop 7 Justice Dept. arm 8 Mom in Middlesex 9 Sound of bleachers discontent 10 Toaster waffle choice 11 Goof 12 Architect I.M. __ 13 Par for the course: abbr.

18 Zero, in soccer 19 Color variations 23 Storm out of work for good

24 “Oops!” 25 Climbs

26 Word before toast or after peach 27 Like the old bucket of song

28 Intelligen­t

31 PC brain

32 Easy victory

33 “__ get it”

34 Mail dely. compartmen­t 35 Bob of “Fuller House” 36 Black gem

40 Covert maritime org. 41 Equestrian strap

42 De __: again

47 Melt

49 Point a finger at 52 Below’s opposite 53 Actress Taylor, familiarly

54 Open, as a ski suit 55 Brilliant display 56 NCO rank

57 Like used fireplaces 59 Coop layers 60 Baseball hat 61 Charlotte of “The Facts of Life”

62 On a date, say 63 Unburdened (of) 64 “CSI” evidence 65 Family dog, e.g.

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