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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 [This is so

frustratin­g!] 5 Ceiling

10 Mail often diverted to a separate folder 14 Sainted pope called “the Great”

15 Modern Persian 16 Celestial bear 17 Mosque bigwig 18 Daring move 20 Barnyard mom 21 Bath-loving

Muppet

22 Priest’s robe 23 KITT on “Knight

Rider”

25 Hanging Gardens

site

29 “You can tell me” 30 Inhabitant­s of a myrmecolog­ist’s farm

32 Big time 33 Thompson of

“Thor: Ragnarok” 35 Getty and

Rockefelle­r 38 Street moves since the ’70s

... and what the black squares on rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 do

40 Unfolds 42 Pertaining to the

small intestine 43 Chest bone 44 Fling

46 Hardship 50 Judicial selfdisqua­lification 53 Zoe of “Avatar” 55 Genetics lab

material 56 Ragged

58 Floral garland 59 Three-flavor

block

62 Mount Olympus

group

63 “You Needed Me”

singer Murray 64 REO Speedwagon guitarist Dave 65 One is often hard

to resist

66 Site in a

Steinbeck title 67 Network points 68 Financial aid criterion

DOWN

1 Top celebrity

groupings 2 Ride-hitching fish 3 “Scram!”

4 Word for a guy 5 Scales aloft 6 Facial apparatus in a Dumas novel 7 Neighbor of Mauritania 8 Behind on bills 9 Poetic contractio­n 10 Like a sourpuss 11 Math test parts 12 Inquire or require 13 Novelist Rita __ Brown

19 File folder feature

21 Prize 24 Explosion maker, briefly

26 Not separately 27 Mine find

28 A Bobbsey twin 31 Rock bottom 34 “Rizzoli & Isles” actress Alexander 36 Nickelodeo­n sitcom starring Miranda Cosgrove 37 Massenet opera about a Spanish hero

38 “Hogan’s Heroes”

star

39 Auto insurance

giant

40 Cold call? 41 Fabricatio­n 45 In the prior month 47 In great numbers 48 Stressed out 49 Elevated

51 Let loose, as hogs 52 __ Tomé and

Príncipe

54 Chem. class data 57 Not very much 59 Rob Roy’s refusal 60 Boundary 61 PC-to-PC hookup 62 Rev

 ?? By Jeff Stillman ?? 12/26/19
By Jeff Stillman 12/26/19

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