DAILY CROSSWORD

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1 Outdated mar

riage vow word 5 “lol”

9 Religious divisions 14 Renown

15 Odd’s opposite 16 Backless slippers 17 Spot for holiday

decorations 19 Loud, as a crowd 20 As an example 21 Tons

23 Pep squad cheer 26 Component of many a

1980s dance performance 30 Like dark clouds 32 Pizza __: pie with

out tomato sauce 33 Proofreader’s

catch, hopefully 34 Volume of maps 37 Gooey lump 38 Persevere, or a hint to the ends of the answers to 17-, 26-, 53-, and 62-Across

42 __ Bath & Beyond 44 Hang gracefully 45 Farm tower 48 Phrase from Juliet’s balcony scene 50 Language arts teacher’s concern 53 Fruit-flavored loaf 56 Potato growth 57 Dot over an “i” 58 Golf peg 60 Quartet in many a

string orchestra 62 “Sometimes you feel like a nut” candy 67 Short-lived 68 Boyfriend 69 Minecraft or

Fortnite 70 Run-down 71 “Now!,” in the ICU 72 Future platypuses

DOWN

1 Away from work 2 Happy hour locale 3 My Chemical

Romance genre 4 Strong longings 5 “Psst!”

6 “Girl in Progress”

actress Mendes 7 Long-legged

wader

8 Fund on an

ongoing basis 9 Sorta tiny

10 Shout of discovery 11 Semisonic hit with the lyrics “You don’t have to go home / But you can’t stay here” 12 Tazo beverage 13 20th century map

inits.

18 __-shanter:

Scottish cap 22 Blot with a tissue 23 Biodegrade 24 Advice columnist

Dickinson 25 Shakira’s only #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 27 2019 and 2021 Australian Open winner Naomi 28 Staff sgt., e.g.

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29 Gift of __

31 “__ on my watch!” 35 County div. 36 Feudal lord 39 Call by name 40 Zagreb native 41 Belief system

suffix

42 Short cut 43 Memorable

historical period 46 Install, as tiles 47 Mined metal 49 Sent, as a

postcard

51 Snitch on 52 Yemen’s Gulf of __ 54 Says too much 55 Find a new

tenant for

59 One of 12 on a

cube

60 “Blue Bloods”

TV network 61 Before, in

classic poetry 63 Goat’s bleat 64 High-end British

car, for short 65 “No. Way.” 66 “That’s right”