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CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Captain done in by Moby-Dick 5 Deli or bar array 9 Sound from a flock 14 Oval Office rejection 15 Reaction to a pinch, maybe 16 Electronic­s store section 17 Appliance on a board 18 Tourist mecca of India 19 A no-no for vegans 20 Common bakery buy 23 Apply with a swab, perhaps 24 Milieu for 1-Across 25 Big bother 28 Rose with a lifetime ban 31 Key signature with no sharps and flats 36 Have an epic fail 38 Four caplets instead of two, e.g. 40 Tatum of “Paper Moon” 42 Flub an easy one 43 Places for bingewatch­ers 44 Entrance for Fido, informally 47 Skywalker from Tatooine 48 Handy item for a solver 49 Start a triathlon 51 D.C. player 52 Rank for Friday or Snorkel (Abbr.) 54 Guy pal, informally 56 Literary physician who talks to animals 64 “Ditto!” 65 Twist the arm of 66 Crop-damaging downpour 67 Vocalist’s warble 68 E-commerce site symbol 69 Midterm, e.g. 70 Solar energy collector 71 Females that 9-Across 72 Backboard attachment­s

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1 Ardent, as collectors 2 Saver of the day 3 How an index is ordered 4 Made a fillet of 5 Surface beneath the crossties 6 Much-maligned Serbian auto 7 Pantyhose hue 8 Goes after, as fly balls 9 Awful reputation­s 10 Party often lit with torches 11 Reduce the word count of, say 12 What the haughty put on 13 Inedible part of a Happy Meal 21 Drift off for a while 22 Become well 25 Where to hang one’s hat 26 Bloodmobil­e visitor 27 Last Greek letter 29 Two-___ sloth 30 Continenta­l bank notes 32 “Raiders of the Lost Ark” prop 33 Far from enjoyable 34 Japanese city east of Kobe 35 Zero out 37 Insomniac’s eye features 39 Furrowed body part 41 50-Down technician’s request 45 “As a result . . .” 46 Barbecue morsels 50 Body scan, for short 53 Break in hostilitie­s 55 Catchall option in a survey 56 Cartoon explorer 57 Norse god played by Anthony Hopkins 58 “I Love Paris” composer Porter 59 Create caricature­s 60 Storybook fiend 61 Alternativ­e to Uber 62 Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games” 63 National Mall trees 64 Name in fuel additives Friday’s Answer

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