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Today’s crossword

- By Jerry Edelstein ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

ACROSS

1 Big name in farm

equipment

6 Silly

10 Flow very slowly 14 __Valdez: oil-spill

ship

15 Palm tree berry 16 Gucci of fashion 17 Disney World’s

__ Center

18 *TV coverage of

city events, say 20 Author of

macabre fiction 21 Container weight 22 Start of a

choosing rhyme 23 *Metaphoric­al boundary that shouldn’t be crossed 27 Creamy pastry 29 Paintings and

such

30 *“That’ll be the

day” 34 Amazement 37 Geologic time

frames 38 Octogenari­an’s

80, e.g. 39 Nobelist Wiesel 40 Drunkard 41 *Jerusalem

prayer site 45 Scot’s cap 46 Honks at, say 47 *Phrase used by

experts

53 Be mad about 54 Historical times 55 Library contents:

Abbr.

58 Softcover book, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues can have

60 Censor

62 “__ miracle!” 63 “Got it!”

64 Middle East ship,

perhaps

65 Marsh growth 66 Kings and queens 67 Word with laugh

or dance

DOWN 1 Thoughtpro­voking 2 Montreal MLBer

before 2005 3 Like A+ work 4 Piglet’s joey pal 5 Tolkien talking

tree

6 __ Lama

7 Nut from an oak 8 Gem surface 9 Acapulco aunt 10 Most sensible 11 Colleague of

Ruth and Sonia 12 Astronomer

Hubble

13 Sat for a photo 19 Suspicious 21 Actress Garr 24 McShane and

McKellen 25 Little bite 26 “2001”

computer 27 Female sheep 28 Half a toy train? 31 Fuel in a tank 32 Army NCO 33 Lawyer’s charge 34 Source of a

ringing warning 35 Go limp 36 “Electric” fish 39 Big pitcher 41 Lloyd or Paul of

Cooperstow­n 42 Former U.K.

recording giant 43 “Darn!”

44 N.Y. Mets’

division

45 Needle eye insert 47 Hoglike animal 48 Skype

appointmen­t 49 Thicket of trees 7/28/20 50 Halt

51 Shaped like a

rainbow 52 “Great” quintet 56 Ship’s spine 57 Quick-footed 59 Tot’s foodcatchi­ng chest protector 60 Hope or

Newhart 61 Falsehood

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