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- EDITED Erik Agard BY Erik Agard

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1 Some Coloradans 5 In addition

8 “I’ll take a ___ at it” 12 Spanish for “Miss” 14 State flower of Indiana

15 At the ___ hour 16 Show off

17 With 34- and 49-Across, Toni Morrison quote 19 Product in skin care or printing 22 Tube-shaped bottle 23 Japanese dog breed

24 Name that means “have a meal” when spelled backwards

26 Peephole’s place

29 What goes between tic and toe

30 Fake-offended

phrase

33 Metallic resource

34 See 17-Across

37 Tree with a “slippery” variety 38 Mourn 39 Childbirth specialist­s, for short 41 Something owed 43 Airport stat 44 Downloadab­le volume 46 Name meaning “king”

48 Dark outside

49 See 17-Across

55 Cold outside

56 Form a labor group 60 Supermarke­t section 61 Inaccurate term 62 Activist Parks 63 Letters on toothpaste tubes

64 Cola, e.g.

DOWN

1 “___ it or lose it!”

2 ___ Aviv

3 Third letter of

12-Across

4 The first “S” in USSR

5 Really small

6 Palindromi­c name

7 Third-largest Hawaiian island 8 Ocean bottom 9 Guided trip 10 “The Wall Between” author Braden

11 Unit of computer memory 13 Song part that’s repeated

14 Beg

16 Day after Thu. 18 “Crisis ___!” 19 Neck design, for short 20 Signed off on 21 “Miss Juneteenth” star Beharie 24 Podcast hosted by Kid Fury and Crissle West 25 Tax inspection

27 Cereal based on

a Nabisco cookie

28 Nike competitor

31 Thee Stallion, to

fans

32 “Mazel ___!”

35 Rihanna song with the lyric “Now that it’s raining more than ever”

36 Uses as

sustenance

40 Cloud’s place

42 Word after “pool” or “periodic”

45 Word before “dias” or “Aires”

47 Bliss

49 Surgery

souvenir

50 Lorain’s state

51 Hit’s opposite

52 County in the southwest corner of Arizona 53 Name that means “have a meal” when spelled backwards

54 “Mona ___”

57 “If you ask me,”

for short

58 Z, to a Brit

59 “It’s the end of

an ___”

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