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1 “There Is Nothin’ Like a ___” (“South Pacific” song) 5 Per ___ (expense account amount) 9 Misbehave 14 “Jeopardy!” host Trebek 15 Pakistani tongue 16 Idaho’s capital 17 Wright flight site 19 Impulses 20 “It’s the end of ___” 21 River near the Pyramids 23 Hornets’ home 24 Outcome 26 The “N” of PIN 28 Needing sign language, say 30 Garrison of “A Prairie Home

Companion” 33 Green gem 36 Cumberland ___ 38 Go over in one’s imaginatio­n 39 Chicken ___ king 40 Hospital diagnostic 42 Was out front 43 Genghis Khan, for one 45 Needing hospitaliz­ation, say 46 Beginner 47 Place to sleep 49 Barely run the engine 51 Former Disney head Michael 53 Wedge fractions in Trivial Pursuit 57 Cartoon frames 59 ___ club (singing group) 61 Aid for reaching the top shelf,

maybe 62 Samuel on the Supreme Court 64 James Bond film involving a

Fabergé egg 66 String quartet member 67 Dip, as a doughnut 68 Film spool 69 Having a clearer head 70 Votes that are an anagram of 71

Across 71 “No sweat!”

DOWN

1 Senegal’s capital 2 Skirt style 3 Doles (out) 4 Stick out 5 Dolt’s response 6 It’s bordered by three countries with “-stan” in their names 7 Dickens’s “The Mystery of ___ Drood” 8 Eskimo boot 9 ___ Dhabi 10 Institutio­n in Ithaca, N.Y. 11 Perennial whose flowers are typically orange with black dots 12 Avails oneself of 13 Little brother, to an older sibling, say 18 School where the Clintons

met 22 Green gems 25 Follow behind 27 “Très ___” (“Very well,” in French) 29 Obese 31 Atop 32 Fresh take, informally 33 Either side of a doorway 34 ___ vera 35 Source of some fluff 37 Omega preceder 40 Dove sounds 41 151, in old Rome 44 Hard-to-chew piece of meat 46 Surface quality 48 Tune 50 Favor a “th” sound 52 Feed the same line 54 Where navies go 55 Water carriers 56 In a wily way 57 Cleveland b-ball team 58 Kazan of Hollywood 60 Sicilian mount 63 It’s dipped in the water 65 Allows

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No: 1217 ??
Puzzle by: Elizabeth A. Long No: 1217

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