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CROSSWORD

- Patrick Jordan

ALL CAPS ACROSS

1 Draws away from shore 5 Lights-out melody 9 Zoomed along 13 Landlocked nation of West Africa 14 Like Stephen King’s Pennywise 15 Foul-tempered 16 Period marked by smelting of copper 18 Zola of the literary school of naturalism 19 It can be poached legally 20 Movie trailers, e.g. 21 Played a tabla or djembe 23 Unlikely to yield 26 Jay Gould’s railroad 27 What an energy drink will give you 28 “Same difference” 32 Clotho and her sisters, with “the” 35 Balance-reducing entry 36 Furious feeling 37 “Country Boy” singer Jackson 38 Word that can follow the last parts of 16- and 58-Across and 10- and 34-Down 39 Counterfei­ter’s pursuer, for short 40 Mel Gibson’s “Mad” character 41 Lamp dweller 42 Item with drawers 43 Step up, as a conflict 45 Sound from Mary’s follower 46 Regrets bitterly 47 Fashionabl­e folks 52 Occur prior to 55 Extracted asset 56 In support of 57 Ushered to a seat 58 Like some loans or disability 61 Makes more readable, perhaps 62 Stance on a runway 63 Reflex test target 64 Colon’s pair 65 Criterion for public assistance 66 Underdogs seek to defy them

DOWN

1 Smoldering remnant 2 Trash-hauling craft 3 Columns on crosswords, e.g. 4 Biblical offense 5 Prepared to drive 6 Seaman’s “Stop!” 7 Truffle-seeking animal 8 Toy on a slippery slope 9 Yalta event of 1945 10 Evening viewing hours 11 Fashion magazine since 1945 12 Treated with indigo, say 15 Georges who painted with dots 17 “America’s diamond store” 22 Send via PayPal, e.g. 24 Begin the business day 25 “Them,” to “us” 29 2017 stage award for Matthew Broderick 30 Baseball’s dead-ball and live-ball 31 Patronize Airbnb 32 Celebrity status 33 Word that may precede sad news 34 Reduction on a return 35 By ___ of (owing to) 38 Bare minimum 39 “Oh, no! Not ___!” 41 Gathers bit by bit 42 “Insert this” symbol 44 Takes for no credit 45 Like many zoo enclosures 48 Largest deer 49 Blow some bucks 50 Missed a cue, say 51 Encycloped­ia volumes, e.g. 52 Made an appeal 53 Give a new design to 54 Oft-watched channel in a man cave 59 Soil-turning tool 60 Pugilistic stat

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