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THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

- BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Crossed a stream, in a way 6 Way out there 10 Vintners’ vessels 14 Find irresistib­le 15 Ben & Jerry’s holder 16 A party to 17 Classic necktie knot 19 Regarding, on a memo 20 Fall back gradually 21 Pit stop intake 22 Haunted house decoration 24 Hangs on to 26 Tiny fraction of a kilowatt-hour 27 Guitar innovator Paul 28 Made a cashless transactio­n 31 Salsa-topped munchies 34 Half the “California Dreamin’” group 35 Zales competitor 36 Share a side with 37 Word that can precede the first parts of 17- and 55-Across and 11and 33-Down 38 Spore-producing plant 39 Butterfly snagger 40 White sale buy 41 Card game expert Edmond 42 Beads of sweat, e.g. 44 Really important 45 Seward’s Alaska purchase, it was said 46 Hint at 50 “The great unwashed” 52 Slam-dance 53 “Alternativ­e fact” 54 Baldwin of “30 Rock” 55 Assigner of 4-Fs and 1-As 58 Germ for an invention 59 Minimal amount 60 Started the kitt y 61 Off one’s rocker 62 Some “What’s My Line?” responses 63 Like a bassoon’s sound

DOWN

1 Part of a Kit Kat 2 Pueblo brick 3 Skeptical outlook 4 Misspeak, say 5 Places on a pedestal 6 Post-exercise woes 7 Baby bronco 8 King Kong’s love, ___ Darrow 9 Reef material used in jewelry 10 Capable of success 11 Test grader’s aid 12 Reusable bag 13 Snooty sort 18 Wimple wearers 23 Triple play threesome 25 Much of the time 26 Land of kendo 28 Sources of ruin 29 Title above viscount 30 Tiny fraction of a newton 31 Tabasco sauce quality 32 Victim of Cain 33 Section of a cow chart 34 Like some air freshener scents 37 Completed, as a form 38 Verne’s circumnavi­gator 40 Period of calm 41 Lofty goal, metaphoric­ally 43 Stubby-tailed predator 44 Exceed 21 in blackjack 46 Lounge furnishing­s 47 Make blissful 48 Fathered, as a 7-Down 49 Victoria’s Secret sleepwear buy 50 Late-night fridge visit 51 Alan with six Golden Globes 52 First ___ (Gilligan’s job) 56 Little hopper in Milne tales 57 Tip-jar insert, often

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© Andrews McMeel 7/17

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