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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Diet food phrase 6 Puny pencil

10 __ gin fizz 14 Ancient market 15 Long Island Iced Tea coloring provider 16 Double-decker

checker 17 Detergent sold around Yankee Stadium? 19 Village People

megahit

20 Good to go

21 Put up

22 Fell off

23 Title characters,

typically

25 Tetris shape 26 Chicken __ 27 Jingle for a

detergent ad? 33 Stuck, with “down” 35 Game official 36 Mediterran­ean

tourist site

37 “Go team!” 38 Detergent for fishing equipment? 41 Same old routine 42 __ sax

44 Charge

45 Large sea ducks 47 Directors in charge of a detergent? 50 Junior prom

attendee

51 G.I. chow 52 “Snowy” bird 54 No-sweat class 57 Copier of old 59 Member of the fam 62 Quickly down 63 Detergent for seasonal cleaning? 65 Kon-Tiki Museum

city

66 Acorn droppers 67 Three on a

par-five, say 68 Hard on the ears 69 Military outpost 70 Compositio­n for

nine

DOWN

1 Bags

2 Fantasy brute 3 Stage illuminati­on 4 Prince Valiant’s

son

5 Many an offshore

bank account 6 Go downhill fast 7 __ the line

8 Film beekeeper 9 Keep out

10 Color named for a natural phenomenon 11 Spot for a nest 12 A while back 13 “Good grief!” 18 Atlantic catch 22 Stately tree 24 Brain scan, for

short

25 __ White, Jennifer Hudson’s role in the film “Dreamgirls” 26 Fluffy-eared

critter

28 Pushy type

29 “V for Vendetta”

actor Stephen 30 It may have an

arrow

31 Store, as ashes 32 Title pets in a Lilian Jackson Braun mystery series 33 Thin nail

34 “Moll Flanders”

novelist

39 Cause of a brewed awakening? 40 Ammonia

component 43 “Heavens!” 46 Snider of Twisted

Sister

48 Sports __

49 End 53 High-ranking off. 54 Earth Day subj. 55 “Understood” 56 “Mr.” on a sci-fi

bridge 57 Film-rating org. 58 Bothers

60 Like much

chitchat 61 Borscht

vegetable 63 Blubber 64 Confucian path

 ?? By Paul Coulter ?? 7/25/19
By Paul Coulter 7/25/19

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