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Today’s crossword

- By Jeff Stillman

ACROSS

1 Go __: hit to right field batting righthande­d, say, in baseball lingo

5 Trying to block

9 Performs like Missy Elliott

13 Ruckus

14 Eve’s opposite

15 Sun: Pref.

16 *Second Commandmen­t prohibitio­n

18 Heroic sagas

19 “Awake and Sing!” dramatist

20 South Carolina state tree

22 *Old-fashioned parting words

25 See stars

26 Widen, as pupils

30 Fri. preceder

33 “Oh dear!”

36 Sherpa’s home

37 *“Cheese stands alone” kids’ song title guy

41 When some dinners are served

42 Delhi wrap

43 “Narcos” org.

44 Certain Tibetan

46 Sounds of disgust

49 *Metaphoric­al insect observer

55 “Yada, yada, yada”

58 Old copy

59 Little pigs number

60 Go to pieces, or what’s literally hidden in the answers to starred clues

63 Tally again

64 Skeleton prefix

65 Grandson of Eve

66 Geologic spans

67 __ buco

68 “The Banana Boat Song” opener

DOWN

1 No longer using

2 Designer bag brand

3 Not as bright

4 Raw bar mollusk 5 “__ imagining things?”

6 Doze

7 Figurative expression

8 Eloper’s acquisitio­n

9 Drove back

10 Came down

11 Early Briton

12 Just okay

15 Fashion variable

17 Sunrise dirección

21 Was ahead

23 Get wind of

24 MLB pitcher Dock profiled in the 2014 film “No No: A Dockumenta­ry”

27 Parroted

28 One shared at a campfire

29 Jazz legend

Fitzgerald 30

Maker of nonstick cookware

31 Doth possess

32 Constellat­ion bear

34 Political commentato­r Navarro

35 Walk with a swagger

38 Many printer jams

39 Praised highly

40 Elevation word

45 “Science Guy” Bill

47 Blood: Pref.

48 Ran through a reader

50 Lover of Euridice, in a Monteverdi work

51 Tandoori breads

52 Maytag rival

53 “Bad, Bad” Brown of song

54 Bear voiced by Ned Beatty in “Toy Story 3”

55 Basic French verb

56 “Sons of Anarchy” actor Rossi

57 Fruit drink prefix

61 Mormons’ gp.

62 Bath bathroom

 ??  ?? 4/7/21
4/7/21

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