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- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Bourbon Street music 5 Incision aftermath 9 Doe’s mate 13 Retailer with a blue and yellow logo 14 Easily cleaved rock 15 Circus seal’s honker

16 One of a vampire’s pair

17 “My oyster,” in a saying 18 Ethiopian princess of opera 19 Ichabod Crane’s village

22 Anti-DUI ad, e.g.

25 GIs’ dog tags

26 Some county fair contestant­s

27 Smitten by Cupid

29 A drawbridge might span one 31 Sir Francis Drake’s ship

33 Where to play Marco Polo

37 Electrical power networks

38 “Plus others” (Abbr.)

39 Uniform fabric

40 Irresistib­le cravings

41 Well driller’s target

43 NEA part

44 More smoothtalk­ing

45 Humphrey’s 1968 running mate

49 Phisher’s scheme

50 Hold in judgment

51 Capital that replaced Constantin­ople 55 Christmas cookie shape

56 Home with a door flap

57 Avocado’s shape

61 Ben Franklin’s flyer

62 Couldn’t abide

63 Luncheon meat purveyor

64 No longer under wraps

65 Sty fare

66 Pink-slipped

DOWN

1 Skippy competitor

2 Letters before a pseudonym

3 ___ garden (place to meditate)

4 Turns sharply

5 Bronzed baby wear

6 Act the grouch

7 Any NATO member, to another 8 Prince Harry or Lucille Ball

9 Commandmen­ts verb 10 Colorful upholstery fabric

11 Fervent feeling

12 Makes holes like a mouse

14 Where 13-Across was founded

20 Isn’t extinct 21 Feeding trough morsel

22 “Wee wee wee” crier of rhyme

23 Dozer’s din

24 “I’m betting everything!”

28 Lottery figure

29 Bakers’ handwear

30 Not to be repeated

32 ___-seeking missile

33 Church tower sound

34 Comet’s path

35 Lewd looker

36 Smelling a rat

39 “Goosebumps” author R.L.

41 Yuletide rings

42 Pulled a

49-Across on

43 What whales surface for

45 Costume ball coverings

46 Release from bondage

47 Stingray’s relative

48 One of the Carpenters

49 Move like a millipede

52 Blue-green shade

53 Not in excess of

54 Trainer of Jedi knights

58 Rub the wrong way

59 Keg contents

60 Coffee-to-go need

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© Andrews McMeel 10/3

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