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ACROSS

1 Measured with a

stopwatch

6 In need of

moisturizer

10 Car that’s hailed 13 “South to America”

author Perry

14 Piece of

asparagus

16 ___ or Nothing ( punny name for a brewery)

17 Heed

18 Whistling stovetop

item

20 Splinter from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” e. g. 21 Had the guts

23 Provide food for a

wedding

24 Smoothie berry

26 Casing for many

legumes

27 Reeked

28 Slalom athlete’s

headgear

30 “I get it now!”

33 Teacher’s ___

( classroom helper) 34 Fury

35 Paddle relative

37 Race segment

38 State capital where Gwendolyn Brooks was born 44 Wading bird with

a downcurved bill 45 Grain for jollof

46 Region

49 Make a ___

( decrease slightly) 50 Word repeated after “If at first you don’t succeed”

51 Goes very fast

53 Retina’s organ

54 “’ Tis a ___”

56 Picture within a

picture

57 2019 Harry Styles

album

60 Roth ___

61 Part of a place

setting

64 Small unit of mass 65 Like someone who experiences little to no sexual and romantic attraction, for short 66 “___: Miami”

67 Sharp shout

68 Used iMessage

69 One might be a chip off the old block

70 School nurses might administer them

DOWN

1 Jeweled crowns

2 “Me again!”

3 Rhyming drink

4 Conclusion

5 Went kaput

6 Prefix with “physics” 7 Brand repped by swimmer Erica Sullivan

8 Unit of cauliflower 9 Himalayan ox

10 Tall, reedy plant

11 “Violeta” author Isabel 12 Barrel with a tap 15 Suggestions, for

short

19 “See ya!”

22 Come into view 25 Most frosty

29 Biblical boat

31 Beekeeper’s jarful 32 Possesses

36 “Worst Picture”

award

38 ___ over ( sustain

for now)

39 Heed

40 Needle

dropping tree

41 Member of a

litter

42 Long- lasting

nail option

43 Any day now

47 “Not a

chance!”

48 Green

“big four” gemstone

52 Stickers on

envelopes

54 Jigsaw puzzle

component 55 Signed, like a

contract

57 Not hilly

58 “In that case . . .” 59 No, in German

61 Piece of body art,

for short

62 Plural form of “is” 63 Most board games come in one

64 P. E. class setting