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- BY Alan Arbesfeld © Andrews McMeel

FIRST IN FLIGHT

ACROSS 1 “The Hot Zone” virus 6 Closet eater’s supply 11 It’s measured in megs or gigs 14 Also-ran 15 Branch of yoga with physical exercises 16 Game with Skip and Reverse cards 17 Lock oneself in, in a way

19 Quill pen point 20 “Flavor” singer Tori 21 Dutch cheese that doesn’t spoil 22 Marlins’ home 24 Inoculated fluids 26 Casey, the first manager of the Mets 28 Italian car with a trident logo 32 Evidence of spoilage 33 Louvre Pyramid architect 34 iPad owner’s read 36 Lexicograp­her Webster

39 Org. with Lions, but not Tigers

40 Like many flood-prone areas 43 Take advantage of 44 Dubai dignitary 46 SAT ___ (Kaplan course)

47 Ed of “Lou Grant” 49 Effect of lunar gravity 51 Tobago’s neighbor 53 Sub sinkers, slangily 56 Where Adam and Eve rebelled 57 Lesley of

“60 Minutes”

58 Bit of scuba gear 60 Portrayer of Pierce and Vinick 64 Colorful carp in backyard ponds 65 Necessitat­e spot cleaning, perhaps 68 Hit a sour note, e.g. 69 Colorado ski mecca 70 “As You Like It” forest setting 71 Anderson who directed “The Grand Budapest Hotel” 72 All tuckered out 73 Kindergart­ner’s goop DOWN 1 Place of Napoleon’s first exile 2 Period of economic growth 3 Capital with the Kon-Tiki Museum 4 “Hmmm . . .” 5 Part of MoMA 6 Show sorrow 7 Magician’s “I did it!” 8 The three in carbon dioxide

9 “Ray Donovan” channel, briefly 10 Caused injury to 11 Get stuck on a sandbar, perhaps 12 “Akira” movie genre 13 Exxon merger partner

18 Wife of Zeus

23 A party to 25 “The Very Hungry Caterpilla­r” author Carle

27 Frat party get-up 28 Undergroun­d workplace

29 Like many car radios 30 Sweat the small stuff 31 “That’s plenty for me”

35 As we speak

37 On the briny 38 Border collie’s charges 41 Ready for customers

42 Lois of the Daily Planet

45 Like many lottery winners 48 “Strangers in the Night” singer 50 “Who shot J.R.?’’ series

52 It may be bounced off someone 53 Off-kilter

54 Part of some chains 55 Hexahedron or cylinder

59 Papa John’s fixture 61 Young kilties

62 Get down to fighting weight, maybe 63 Rice who writes of vampires 66 Paranormal gift, for short 67 Easy-to-dupe sort

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