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WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ( REPRISE) ( FREESTYLE)
ACROSS
1 Competing in a no- blinking contest
8 Tall piece of headwear
14 Umbrella seen in “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”
15 Tropical reptile
16 “You’ve really ___ yourself this time!”
17 Species of small songbird
18 “What terrible luck”
19 Currently unstoppable
21 “r u serious rn”
22 Sounds of books falling off shelves
25 Grandmas
26 Garden tool used before sowing seeds
27 Variant
29 A set of them might
hold an audiobook 30 Tirade
31 “ASAP!”
33 Tennis legend Monica
34 “Find the guy in a red- and- whitestriped shirt” book 36 Does a pirouette
38 “Ouch, what a diss!”
39 Story
40 Primatologist’s animal
41 Silly people
45 Finish up
46 “Noble” horse
48 Drum used in a drumroll
49 A shot from behind the arc is worth three ( Abbr.)
50 Jacuzzi
52 Laser tag sound
53 Toxic substances
55 When kindergartners sleep on mats
58 Make it through
59 Kindle or Nook, e. g.
60 Oozed
61 Poseidon and Tangaroa
DOWN
1 Parts of watering cans
2 Worked as an educator
3 Jazz saxophonist Blythe
4 “Totally rockin’”
5 Prefix meaning “equal”
6 Off- limits action
7 Actress Close
8 Pageant crowns
9 “Shrek” and others 10 Tavern
11 Crushed ice- andcoconut milk dessert from the Philippines
12 Organism in which clownfish live
13 Circles with bull’s- eyes
17 Curtains cover them
20 Informative one- page document
23 Member of the Scooby- Doo gang who always has something handy in her purse
24 Fathers of racehorses
28 Neither here ___ there
30 Test- grader’s writing tool
32 Website with virtual animals
33 Shredded cabbage side dishes
34 Risk- taking part of one’s personality
35 Picnic pest
36 Treeless grasslands
37 Company with a color of the year
40 Made formal amends
42 Spanish for “fast” 43 Future doctor’s program
44 Underground drainage systems 46 Land by the sea
47 Sand hills
51 Without adornment
54 “How’re you doin’?”
56 Samosa veggie
57 Word shouted before “You’re it!”