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Crossword Puzzle 1

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ACROSS

1 Simon __: kids’

game

5 Not for kids,

moviewise 11 Small amount 14 Shopper’s

memory aid 15 Aviator Earhart 16 Skating surface 17 “I had no __!”

18 It follows

35-Down

19 Milk grain 20 Imitative bird 22 Pioneering game

consoles 24 Reaction to a

strange object 28 Lengthy tales 31 e__: online instructio­nal guide

32 Shoot well under

par, in golf lingo 36 App purchaser 37 Serious criminal 39 Actress Anderson 40 Everest and K2:

Abbr.

41 Out of practice 42 Lender’s claim 43 Stick-in-the-__ 44 Make like new, as

old furniture 46 Tater __: deepfried potato morsel

47 Parisian season 48 Semiannual occurrence that begins 18- and 66-Across 49 Opposite of

WSW

50 Showed again 52 Bandage brand 53 Less adulterate­d 55 Summoned, as

the fiddlers three 58 Comfy shoe pad 61 With milk, as café 65 Crystal ball gazer 66 In 2021, it begins

September 22nd 70 Place to de-stress 71 Turkey neighbor 72 In twos, like

socks

73 Nosh

74 Fathers’ boys 75 Gets hot on

Twitter

76 Many pop-ups

DOWN

1 Lose one’s

footing

2 Musical based on

an opera 3 Belgian river 4 Movie with

R2-D2

5 Dreads sporter 6 Excite, with “up” 7 Thrice, in Rx’s 8 New Haven alum 9 Kitchen dweller

of song

10 Motley 11 Designer Christian 12 Smoothie berry dubbed a superfood 13 Wagers

21 “I see” words 23 Ring-shaped reef 25 “Same drink as

always” 26 Semi-annual occurrence that begins 28- and 35-Down 27 Black-and-white,

e.g.

28 It precedes

66-Across 29 Sharp-witted 30 Word with role or

identity 33 Hang around 34 Common soccer

deadlock

35 It follows

66-Across 37 MHz measure 38 “Eli’s Coming”

songwriter Laura 44 Kidney-related 45 Describes in detail 51 Squirrel’s haul 54 Web address

letters 56 Jumped

57 Widely known 58 Wife of Osiris 59 Fiddling emperor 60 Actor Connery 62 Away from port 63 Apple tablet 64 Body art, casually 67 Former Mideast

org.

68 Deadlock 69 Keats’ “Ode on a

Grecian __”

 ?? By Steve Faiella ?? 9/20/21
By Steve Faiella 9/20/21

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