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CROSSWORD

- BY Fred Piscop

FOUR STARTERS ACROSS

1 Clothes closers 6 Place to dock 10 Tick off 14 Sign on a rental unit 15 “Voila!” 16 Like fairy- tale stepmother­s 17 Academia, to some 19 Supermarke­t section 20 Snake with a warning sound 21 Good- natured 23 Closes, as a deal 25 Tiny Tim’s verb 26 Mass figure 30 Deep shade of 32- Down 33 Jeans reinforcer 34 “Drake” poet Alfred 35 Prefix with con 38 Mirror shape, perhaps 39 Toiled on a crew 40 “Pygmalion” dramatist 41 Porker’s pad 42 Hiked, as an ante 43 Pod veggies, old- style 44 Billboard item 46 Sluggish, as footsteps 47 Hat trick trio 49 Exchange verbal jabs 51 1/ 3, to 3 54 Like Coleridge’s mariner 59 “___ 18” ( Uris novel) 60 Cornellian, e. g. 62 Drop anchor 63 Charges from counsel 64 Peter of “Casablanca” 65 A deadly sin 66 Carhop’s load 67 Destroy bit by bit

DOWN

1 Paint can direction 2 Exploding star 3 Zillions 4 Fresh- mouthed 5 Coif creator 6 Bird on a birth announceme­nt 7 Ally McBeal’s field 8 Creative flash 9 Chicken ___ ( 19- Across hero) 10 General’s chestful 11 Scam victim’s cry 12 Packs to the brim 13 Swatters’ victims 18 Collapsibl­e lodging 22 Sacred bird of Egypt 24 Ballpark officials 26 Cessna spinner, for short 27 ___ Gauche ( Paris area) 28 Researcher with drooling dogs 29 Jellied or smoked fish 31 Gawked at 32 Cardinal or brick 34 Kitten’s pickup spot 36 Life of Riley 37 Wilson of “Zoolander” 39 ___ out ( withdraw) 40 Bering or Barents 42 Atlas initials until 1991 43 Bedding fabric 45 Owner of an infamous Chicago cow 46 Country byway 47 “Hand it over!” 48 Pungent salad veggie 50 ___- walsy 52 De- lump, as flour 53 “As ___” ( letter closing) 55 “Young Frankenste­in” flunky 56 Post- lira currency 57 Social goofball 58 Golf course obstructio­n 61 Parliament­ary affirmativ­e

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