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EDITED Erik Agard BY Quiara Vasquez

IT’S YOUR THING

ACROSS 1 “Spring Day” boy band 4 Jabbed 9 Even-handed 13 Savings plan initials 14 Excommunic­ate 15 Black-and-white equine 16 ___ Liberation Front 17 Very thick 18 Start of something 19 Electionee­ring at a taqueria, perhaps 22 Declare invalid 23 Ruthless ruler 27 Light gas in some lights 28 Martial arts strikes 32 Dance at Hilo’s Merrie Monarch Festival 33 The EPA banned it in 1972 34 Blue-footed ___ (bird) 35 Apartment handyperso­n 36 Excessive admiration 39 Homegirl, in Honduras 41 Possums have 50 42 Telepathy, e.g. 45 Like a roly-poly 46 Like someone who orders people around 47 Chapati flour 48 Bird that can recognize itself in a mirror 50 Protective attire 51 1999 animated film about a huge robot 56 H.S. class that deals with cells 59 Device that’s fed quarters 60 Telluride automaker 61 Tacky 62 Band together 63 Large 8-Down 64 Credit union offering 65 Crew 66 Reuben bread DOWN 1 It changes position every minute 2 Worked those 10-Down, say 3 Keeps quiet 4 Part of a bike 5 Plow pullers 6 Three of a ___ 7 “If all ___ fails . . .” 8 ___ in the headlights 9 Chinese arranging practice 10 Six-pack muscles 11 Fury 12 Snitch 15 ___ Wars (Fortnite mode) 20 Type of punchline hidden in this clue 21 Bouncers check them 24 Designer whose creations might be controlled with strings 25 Word in an FC Barcelona chant 26 2020 movie set in La Brea 28 Soft murmur 29 Tutorial 30 Two-reeded woodwinds 31 Apt rhyme for “fires” 34 Pushup ___ 35 “This is a library!” 37 Like the Bibliothec­a Alexandrin­a 38 Enclosure for swine 39 Money machine 40 ___ X (“Unlady Like” rapper) 43 In an emotionles­s manner 44 Join in 46 Pollen collector 47 Name that’s 13-Across backward 49 Breakfast chain 50 Concur 52 “My turn!” 53 City on the Sierra Nevada 54 “Strawberry Letter 23” composer Shuggie 55 Brooklyn NBA team 56 Knee part, for short 57 Vietnamese noodle soup 58 “Don’t ___ stranger!”

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© Andrews McMeel 1/7

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