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SCREEN TEST

ACROSS

1 Wood in model kits 6 Geysers do it

10 Where rials are spent

14 Wage negotiatio­ns side

15 Bit of mock vocal fanfare 16 Aspiring pilot’s milestone 17 2-for-1 Wall Street event, perhaps 19 Car rental partner of Budget

20 Wind chimes sound 21 Meticulous­ly planned movie scene

23 Sleepy Hollow horseman’s lack 25 Threw into the mix 26 Chipotle Mexican Grill bite 29 Chalked part of a cue 31 Chaucer’s Tabard, e.g.

32 Hitch on the run

34 Borrower’s easy

target

39 CBS forensic drama

franchise

40 Howard Hughes, in

later years

42 In addition

43 “Good gravy!”

45 Dashboard displays 47 Like Garfield or

Santa Claus

48 Prefix in music

genres

50 Talk on WhatsApp, e.g.

51 Annual report graphic

54 Sushi bar libation 56 Chain that sells

6-Down

60 Open, as a gate

64 Privy to

65 Statistici­an who founded FiveThirty­Eight

67 Blogger’s tirade

68 Fairy tale prepositio­n 69 Urbane, like 007 70 Some folding cash 71 Beach castle makeup

72 Corkscrew’s shape

DOWN

1 Total failure

2 Policy opponent

3 Predator of wildebeest

4 1950s gym dance

5 Common sprain site 6 NASCAR sponsor

7 Kramden and Norton, famously

8 Falco of “Nurse Jackie”

9 Bulb power unit

10 Reiterated refusal

11 Acted the nomad

12 Literary tea party guest 13 Pushed with one’s snout

18 Show to a chair 22 Respired after a race

24 Club with a mirrored ball 26 PC guru

27 In addition

28 Slinky’s shape 30 Accordion tune,

perhaps

31 FWIW part

33 Like an inferior substitute 35 Gasohol and ethanol

36 Arches National Park state 37 Burger shop drink

38 Kimmel or

Colbert

41 Defib pro

44 Men’s underwear style

46 Color paler

than turquoise 49 Cross-shaped Greek letters 51 Site of Egypt’s Tahrir Square 52 Spicy Chinese cuisine 53 Make restitutio­n 55 Potato-filled deli buy 57 Heavy burden 58 Competitor of 56-Across 59 School on the Thames 61 Shape of many grapes

62 Strauss of denim 63 Dino with puny

forelimbs

66 This puzzle’s last

entry, fittingly

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© Andrews McMeel 2/11

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