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Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Michael Dewey 1/23/18

ACROSS

1 Daily bread? 5 Convenient bag 9 Flower that’s a Buddhist symbol of purity 14 Unattribut­ed, as a quote: abbr.

15 Prof.’s employer 16 Stupefy

17 Checkout line unit 18 Actress Russo 19 Words to live by 20 1666 conflagrat­ion that destroyed St. Paul’s Cathedral 23 Military abbr. on a Beatles album 24 NYC subway line 25 Pup squeak 28 Raphael fresco depicting Greek philosophe­rs, with “The” 33 “__-ching!” 34 Venison source 35 Sunny feeling 36 Seventh-day activity, in the Bible

38 __ Gone: gunkcleani­ng product 40 Repeated Doris Day song word

41 Gave the slip 44 Indian bread

47 At this moment 48 Gypsum used for casts

51 Subj. for immigrants 52 Color gradation 53 Coastal inlet 54 Pope 60 Complete chaos 63 Each

64 Rapper whose name sounds like a drink 65 Plato’s marketplac­e 66 Fodder storage tower

67 Not this 68 Wooden peg 69 Informal greetings 70 “Star Wars” guru DOWN

1 Many a Dickens child 2 Prefix with social 3 Suffix with party 4 Catch in a net 5 Sports injury on an artificial surface 6 First-year law student 7 Former Yankee slugger Martinez 8 Should it arise that 9 De Niro’s “Raging Bull” role 10 Arabian Peninsula nation

11 Payroll deduction 12 Action film weapon 13 College yr. division 21 Prayer opener 22 Sketch

25 Native of Sanaa 26 Emcees’ duties 27 “Horsefeath­ers!” 28 Beachcombe­r’s finds 29 Like some Friday work attire

30 Meet portion, or portion of meat 31 Maine college town 32 Store posting: abbr. 33 Parisian pancake 37 NFL six-pointers 39 Dolt

42 Virtuous

43 Latin god

45 At just the right time 46 Innocent soul

49 Go over again 50 Uncommon thing 54 Droning lecture, e.g. 55 Freckled boy of old TV 56 Roly-__ 57 Eight, in Ecuador 58 Renaissanc­e faire quaff

59 Jazzy James 60 “I’ve been __!” 61 Back in time 62 Pledge

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