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Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Paul Coulter 3/26/18

ACROSS

1 Norway’s capital 5 Central Florida city 10 Distillery containers 14 Procrastin­ator’s

promise 15 Something in the air 16 Building beam 17 Narrow land formation along the Bering Sea

20 Price hike: abbr. 21 Bard’s “before” 22 Billionair­e Bill

23 Puts on the line 25 Marshy area

26 Most despicable 29 “Citizen Kane” sled 33 Upstate New York Winter Olympics village 36 Acapulco article 37 O. Henry specialty 38 It was thrown into the harbor in a 1773 “party” 39 Ingenious

41 __ long way: help considerab­ly 42 Washington city with a repetitive name 44 Intertwine­d

47 Not as cold, as weather 48 Hi-tech worker 49 Hindu deity 51 “Nonsense!”

54 Spy org. called “The Company” 55 Hamburg’s river 58 Scottish archipelag­o 62 Hot under the collar 63 Ball girl 64 Bothers no end 65 Like golf balls at the start of a hole, usually

66 Nuclear trial 67 Weight loss plan

DOWN

1 Mama bear, in Mexico 2 Songs sung alone 3 Student aid

4 In the movies 5 Egg cells 6 “RUR” playwright 7 Copycats

8 Word with wolf or Ranger 9 Shapiro of NPR 10 Countenanc­e 11 Adjoin

12 “A __ of Two Cities” 13 Mmes., in Madrid 18 __ Kreme: doughnut brand

19 Private nonprofits: abbr.

24 Mo. town 25 Physique, informally 26 “Mudbound” actress Mary J. __ 27 Composer Copland 28 Norwegian toast 29 Mideast money 30 Erect a house 31 Parent’s brother 32 Senegal’s capital 34 Barely more than not at all 35 Animation frame 39 Turn like a chair 40 2016 Gosling/Stone film ... and, as shown by circles, what each of four answers is 42 Dripping __: soaked 43 Parisian pal

45 Died down 46 Monastic hood 49 Move furtively 50 Waves for, as a taxi 51 Hissed “Hey!” 52 Loafer or moc 53 “Take this” 54 Tech news site 56 __ B’rith 57 Barely beat 59 Attorneys’ org. 60 Filming site 61 Retired flier, briefly

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