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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Distressed cry 5 Capture, in

Westerns

10 Pond film 14 Singer Brickell 15 Rap sheet entry 16 __ Linda, Calif. 17 Noble fish? 19 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, e.g.

20 Radio tuning

shortcut 21 Longtime “American Top 40” host 23 They’re sold in

bars

26 Force out

29 Goes along with 32 Come again? 33 Oldest Musketeer 34 Keyboard goofs 36 Campaigned 37 Flute feature 38 Management

opening 39 Protest, in a way 40 Argentine aunt 41 Caffè __: chocolatef­lavored drink 42 Reach via jet 43 Oliver Twist, for

one

45 Not farmed out 47 Spruce up the

lawn

48 Jim of “Wide

World of Sports” 49 Buddy

51 Much more than

a mere fan 56 Word of lament 58 Elastic fish? 61 Singer with The

Blackheart­s 62 Typical 63 Caffeine-rich

seed

64 Graph lines 65 Chaps

66 Kind of folder

DOWN

1 Online site whose reviews are reviewed 2 Fragrance 3 Certain partner 4 Frees, with “out” 5 Common carryon item

6 Pub order

7 What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty

8 Fires

9 Fed. workplace

monitor

10 Short item on

many a tee 11 Massive fish? 12 Diamond

authority 13 Possibly will 18 Many RSVP responses, hopefully 22 Notices

24 Top story 25 Medium

27 Pure

28 Scout rider 29 What you have

on

30 Stingy fish? 31 Dot follower, at

times

32 Piglet’s pal

33 Tycoon who is an Oregon city namesake 35 Play a joke on 38 Day named for a

satellite: Abbr. 39 Winter bug 41 Anti-DUI org. 42 Entrance area 44 Raises 46 Variable eye

colors

48 Touchpad

alternativ­e 50 Pharmacy item 52 Sets as a price 53 Circuit 54 Earthenwar­e pot 55 Bears or Lions 56 1977 Steely Dan

album

57 Latin law

59 Dog holder 60 Diamond tool

 ?? By Susan Gelfand ?? 2/25/21
By Susan Gelfand 2/25/21

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