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CROSSWORD

- Alan Arbesfeld

COUNTRY CLUBBING

ACROSS 1 Like movie snack bar items, often 6 Assault on Troy, e.g. 11 Consumer protection org. 14 Poker declaratio­n 15 Open, as a bolted door 16 Singer Carly ___ Jepsen 17 NEPAL? 19 Extracted asset 20 Opus ___ (“The Da Vinci Code” group) 21 Standing behind 23 Fries or slaw, often 26 Warhol who painted soup cans 28 Egg farm denizens 29 Bake sale org., perhaps 30 Kemo ___ 31 “Star Trek” villain 33 Noodle dish popular in dorms 35 The Axis and others 39 Like some pie orders 41 Make fun of 42 “It ain’t over ’til it ’s over” speaker 44 “Swell!” 45 Or ___ (ultimatum words) 46 Release, as an odor 48 Devilish kid 49 Modest skirt style 51 Bayh of Indiana politics 52 White Monopoly bills 53 Going nowhere 56 Dismiss abruptly 58 White-gloves affair 59 IRAN? 64 Mai ___ cocktail 65 Public relations concern 66 Flower that symbolizes Holland 67 Sen. Franken’s old show 68 City where Big Berthas were built 69 BET Awards Best Movie of 2015 DOWN 1 Fresh talk 2 20-game winner, say 3 Sought a seat 4 Forest clearing 5 Fanning of “Maleficent” 6 Boy in a Johnny Cash song 7 Heathen or atheist, pejorative­ly 8 Dark wood that sinks in water 9 What you wear 10 “At Wit’s End” humorist Bombeck 11 CHINA? 12 Oil industry magnate 13 Complaints, slangily 18 Antipiracy org. 22 Nickels and dimes, say 23 Apply graffiti, in a way 24 Calvino who wrote “Invisible Cities” 25 MALI? 27 Mav or Cav 30 Hoity-toity types 31 Sorento automaker 32 Regular hangout 34 Estevez of the Brat Pack 36 Nash’s beast (not priest!) 37 Wonderland cake message 38 Metro map points 40 Ruby of “American Gangster” 43 Eye for an eye, so to speak 47 Cuzco dweller of old 49 Gear for 42-Across 50 “In other words . . .” 51 Walt Disney’s middle name 52 How an actor may enter 54 French cheese region 55 Brand sold at Petco and PetSmart 57 Tiny soldiers 60 Place for an easy chair 61 Under the weather 62 Matchstick­s game 63 Transcript fig.

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