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CROSSWORD

DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY

- BY Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Classic Japanese movie monster 6 Quiet sort, so to speak 10 “Rumor ___ it . . .” 13 Word after rock or soap

14 Horne who sang “Stormy Weather” 15 Hanukkah goodies 16 Nuclear-missile agreement of 1972, redundantl­y 18 “___ each life . . .” 19 One of the social elite

20 Giants’ home, for short 22 Graphic artists’ supplies

24 Filled with ardor 25 ___ off (left shore) 29 Letter between Sierra and Uniform 32 Fleshy-snouted beast

33 Dance to “Aloha Oe,” maybe 34 Twenty quires 38 Limerick land, in verse 39 Wearing a long face 40 Modest skirt style 41 Part of a hammer head

42 Andy’s radio partner of old 43 “Kind of Blue” trumpeter Miles 44 Out-and-out 46 Find loathsome 47 Gummi ___ (fruity candies)

50 PDQ, in the O.R. 52 Home of the Crimson Tide 55 Bad rating for a restaurant 60 Fundraiser’s plea 61 Cash dispenser, redundantl­y 63 No longer in love with 64 Limerick, e.g. 65 Sacher ___ (pastry) 66 Neighbor of Homer and Marge

67 Fix at the vet’s office 68 Jouster’s mount

DOWN

1 Sub ___ (behind closed doors) 2 Birthstone for many Libras 3 Market section with a self-service kiosk 4 They may be fine or lost

5 Not as frumpy 6 Uriah Heep’s job 7 ___ & Perrins (steak sauce brand) 8 Bugs in an army 9 Angelou with a 1993 inaugural poem 10 Painter Matisse or Rousseau 11 Place to tie the knot 12 Paver’s unit 15 Computer image type, redundantl­y 17 Rip to pieces 21 Over-the-hill horse 23 Dazed states 25 How-to part 26 Also-ran of fable 27 Early Ron Howard TV role

28 Auto registrati­on figure, redundantl­y 30 Drinks rated in Internatio­nal Bitterness Units 31 Bill-killing vote 33 Dorothy Gale’s hoped-for destinatio­n 35 Gutter locale 36 One of three in a 3-D graph 37 Dampen, as a houseplant 39 MMA cage surface 43 Catches a whiff of

45 Org. with wands and X-ray machines 46 Carvey who played the Church Lady 47 Hayride vehicle 48 Mixologist’s garnish 49 Talked gibberish 51 Rock 13-Across with the song “I’m Free” 53 Google ___ (routesugge­sting app) 54 On the pinnacle of 56 Serving of Fireball 57 Lose steam 58 Prefix with bellum or meridian 59 English horn need 62 ___ culpa

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© Andrews McMeel 12/21

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