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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Spot for a salt

scrub

4 Aromatic

evergreen 10 Wind with nearly a three-octave range

14 Fresh from the

oven

15 Collection of hives 16 Sullen look 17 Track 18 Halloween feeling

in a warren? 20 Buffalo lake 22 Like the vb. “go” 23 Belly laugh

syllable 24 Halloween feeling near a water supply?

27 Valleys

31 “Take Care”

Grammy winner 32 “We’ve waited

long enough” 34 Bebe’s “Frasier”

role

38 Overlook 39 Halloween feeling

in the office? 44 Enjoy privileged

status

45 Poise

46 It may get the ball

rolling

48 Trio in “To be, or

not to be” 53 “Borstal Boy”

author Brendan 54 Halloween feeling

in the yard? 58 Angel dust,

initially

60 “You wish,

laddie!”

61 Put out 62 Halloween feeling

in the loo? 67 Summer hrs. in

Denver

68 Stood 69 Paparazzo’s gear 70 Mature 71 Lumberjack­s’

tools

72 Gave it more gas 73 Finch family

creator

DOWN

1 Astute 2 Bartender, often 3 Fifth-century

conqueror

4 Soap unit

5 Two (of)

6 Cuba __

7 Brand of hummus and guacamole 8 Actor Millen of

“Orphan Black” 9 Folk story 10 Wheeler-dealer 11 Feathery

neckwear 12 CSNY’s “__

House”

13 Many “Guardians of the Galaxy” characters 19 Latest things 21 Rockies bugler 25 Sandwich source 26 “Same here” 28 Vehicle with a

partition 29 Mideast

potentate 30 Slowly sinks from

the sky

33 Those folks 35 Confident words 36 Suit part sometimes grabbed 37 Unhealthy 39 Nursery piece 40 Narrow way 41 Engrave 42 Backslides 43 Hitting stat 47 Advance slowly 49 Big club

50 Koala, for

example

51 Game based on

whist

52 Living room piece 55 Japanese art

genre

56 Carried on

57 Big name in

Indian politics 59 Some GIs 62 Monk’s address 63 Cured salmon 64 Employ 65 31-Across genre 66 Covert informatio­n source

 ?? By David Alfred Bywaters ?? 10/31/19
By David Alfred Bywaters 10/31/19

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