Montreal Gazette

EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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ACROSS

1 Place to get a mud bath

4 “Got it now!”

7 Airport about

13 miles from the Loop

12 Perfect scores for divers

14 “Good heavens!”

15 Polite palindromi­c term of address

16 Spice holder

17 *Arthur Carlson portrayer on “WKRP in Cincinnati”

19 Ancient Chinese book of divination

21 Prefix with angle or cycle

22 Extremely fun, as a party

23 *Job for a model

26 Website for some custom-designed jewelry

27 Use steel wool on

28 Hacks with an axe

30 Pro-___ (some golf tourneys)

33 Dead set against

34 Street sign with an arrow

37 Country between Togo and Nigeria

39 Sheepskin boot brand

41 Assault or kidnapping

42 Producer Rhimes who created “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”

44 Coupe or sedan

46 National park freebie

47 Showers with flowers and chocolates, maybe

48 Native New Zealander

50 Inflatable transport

52 *2000 stop-motion animated comedy hit

57 Deep anger

58 Colorful pond fish

59 Bust out of jail

60 Summer Olympics contest whose participan­ts do the ends of the answers to the starred clues

64 Sugar bowl invaders

65 Acquire, as debts

66 Helps

67 Traditiona­l wearer of plaid

68 Fitness program popularize­d in the 1990s

69 Bit of clothing often worn with shorts

70 DeskJet printers and others

DOWN

1 Peel off

2 Popular cobbler fruit

3 Dried chili in Mexican food

4 In the past

5 Belly laugh syllable

6 Toss in

7 Hyatt alternativ­e

8 Mecca pilgrimage

9 *Late-night Cartoon Network programmin­g block

10 Harold who directed “Caddyshack”

11 Opposite of full

13 Comic sketches

14 Goads

18 Company that makes Bug B Gon

20 “Sorry, pal”

24 Member of the largest Rwandan ethnic group

25 A folder is needed for this

26 Still-life vessel

29 Stage comebacks?

30 Muscles strengthen­ed by belly dancing, for short

31 “I’m not impressed”

32 *Winter barrier

35 Org. for physicians

36 “Uh-huh”

38 How some exciting N.B.A. games are won

40 Avocado dip, informally

43 Noted British racecourse

45 Substitute­s for coins

49 Ancient Peruvians

50 Hit the ball out of the park

51 Staples Center, for one

53 Component of a drum kit

54 Cowhands’ home

55 “Give me five!”

56 Tree houses

58 Corn syrup brand

61 Soaking spot

62 Make up a cover story, say

63 Laudatory poem

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