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Today’s crossword

- By Gary Larson

ACROSS

1 “Oh dear!”

5 Instant

9 Harry’s Hogwarts nemesis

14 Hay storage site

15 Puccini piece

16 Prepare for a bodybuildi­ng competitio­n

17 *Spot for a seaside stroll

19 Tax audit docs.

20 Jag

21 Wisconsin city on Lake Winnebago

23 Actor Vigoda

25 *Caller ID, maybe

29 __ onion

33 Brigham Young’s Utah settlement

34 Corrida cheer

35 Prime-time time

37 Hardly prudent

38 Overseas business abbr.

39 Hemingway’s 1930s Florida home, and a hint to the answers to starred clues

43 UPS Store item

44 Broadway barber

46 Leave rolling in the aisles

47 Summer sign

48 Sets right

52 Title role for Gary Cooper and Adam Sandler

54 *Small computer

56 Tummy muscles

57 Like most

customers

59 Opinion pieces

63 Charter

66 *Center stage

68 Respected figure

69 Document sent online

70 Hungarian wine region

71 7UP and Sprite

72 Comfy hangouts

73 Extinct bird

DOWN

1 Clerical vestments 2 Stunt flier’s stunt

3 Not nigh

4 Water under the

bridge, maybe

5 Shoot the breeze

6 OPEC member

7 Manicurist or secretary, at times

8 Minor document?

9 Hip-hop tops

10 Seismologi­st with a scale

11 European peak

12 Shorten, as hair

13 Covert doings

18 Prove false

22 22.5 deg.

24 Singer Brickell

26 Software giant

27 Settled in

28 Group with a common culture

29 Crooner Michael

30 Corrida snorter

31 Social website with “AMA” sessions

32 “__ takers?”

36 Grossed-out sounds 40 Blight-stricken tree

41 “Water for Elephants” novelist Gruen

42 Bathroom brand

45 Like some diving

49 Cavs and Mavs

50 Cracker Jack bonus

51 Dirty

53 Saw 55 Roast carver

58 Guy with the FBI

60 Waffle made without an iron

61 Batted but didn’t field, in MLB lingo

62 Texas MLBer

63 Guitar great Paul

64 “Evil Woman” gp.

65 Put in

67 Strait’s “All My __ Live in Texas”

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©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

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