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CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Quick plane trip

4 Pedometer units

9 Amazon’s virtual assistant

14 Contents of a seam

15 Like rock’s U2

16 Ralph who wrote “The Good Fight” 17 Carrier of electrical power

20 ___ zone (dangerous area)

21 Heavy downpour

22 Sends to the Hill, say

25 Boston Harbor jetsam of 1773

26 Not saying a word

29 Roulette option

30 Isn’t up to par

33 Like Fenway, among MLB ballparks

35 Andean source of fleece

37 Victim of Pizarro

38 Iconic German auto

42 Like a yellow banana

43 Puffball emissions

44 Ukrainian port

47 Braggarts have big ones

48 Like all but one prime number 51 Oscar statuette’s makeup, mostly

52 ___ mater (brain covering)

54 Rubberneck­er, e.g.

56 Ninja or Amazon

60 Kilauea outflow

61 1984 rock mockumenta­ry

65 Tax cheat’s risk

66 Forum language

67 I can stand for it

68 V-formation fliers

69 Largest of the antelopes

70 Tribal homeland (Abbr.)

DOWN

1 Big name in harmonicas 2 Camden Yards player 3 Fixed, as a wage increase

4 Sch. near the Charles River

5 Ill temper

6 Dryer fuzz

7 “Happy Motoring” gas brand 8 Word after stuffed or empty

9 Toughen, as glass

10 Suburban expanse

11 Where “Cut” and “Paste” are found 12 Gen-___ (boomer’s kid) 13 “We ___ everywhere”

18 Ad ___ committee

19 Separable cookie

23 Spill the beans

24 Samples from a snifter

27 Maritime rescue org.

28 Kingston Trio hit about the Boston subway 31 They’re on the books

32 Suffix with moon or land

34 “I called it!”

35 Hoppy brews

36 In a tizzy

38 Middle of a Caesarean boast

39 Dental hygienist’s request

40 Valentine’s Day deity

41 Fledgling’s home

42 Foolish talk

45 Shakespear­e’s Ariel, e.g.

46 Goes public with

48 Patrick Henry or Henry Clay

49 William of

“24”

50 Window decor

53 Market section

55 The whole shebang

57 59 58 Yard Gem Under ___ Skeeter sale from caveat Down (“Harry journalist) Potter”

61 Place for a price

62 Part of a palette

63 “Collages” novelist Anais

64 “There’s more . . .”

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