East Bay Times

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Helps with a crime

6 Capture

10 __ Lee desserts 14 Actress Zellweger 15 Work very hard 16 Greek Cupid 17 Mother, in Madrid 18 Italy’s capital 19 Sitting on 20 Pitchfork-wielding

crowd

22 Tag player’s cry 24 Confidenti­ality

contract: Abbr. 25 Feel sick 26 Georgia home of the Tubman Museum

28 FDR coin 30 Group that may arrange a class reunion

34 South American country where Paddington Bear was born

36 Slimy garden pest 37 List-shortening

abbr.

38 Tech user who will

only use Macs 42 Bad-mouth 45 Title of respect 46 Medical pros 49 Part of speech that conveys doing

53 “That was close!” 55 Considers to be 56 Battery size 58 Obamacare, for

short

59 Shipping

container

61 First leg of a journey, and a descriptio­n of 20-, 30-, 38-, and 49-Across

63 Bell hit with a

padded mallet 64 Solving aid 66 Sports complex 67 French fashion

magazine

68 Cat’s warning 69 Heaps

70 Slow Churned ice

cream brand 71 Send packing 72 Admonition in a

train’s quiet car

DOWN

1 Actor Assante 2 Party bowlful with

tortilla chips 3 Final stages of a

chess match 4 Region: Abbr. 5 “Later, gator” 6 Recreation­al walk 7 Beginner, in

gaming slang 8 Ultimate goal 9 Narrow valley 10 Washington airport named for two cities, familiarly 11 Newspaper piece 12 Eradicate, as

corruption 13 Dangerous

Egyptian snake 21 “Mamma __!”: musical featuring ABBA songs 23 Informal “Holy

cow!”

27 TV network that owns the Peacock streaming service 29 Chunk of time 31 “I can help” 32 L.A. Galaxy’s org. 33 Convent resident 35 Loftiest

39 Bad review

40 Loo

41 Gift box topper 42 Familial source of

corny jokes 43 Like a frosty

beverage

44 In a no-nonsense

manner

47 French manor

house 48 Additional helping

at a meal

50 Mental pictures 51 Least common 52 Steamed

dumpling

54 Terre Haute’s river 57 Gather 60 Reverberat­e 61 Hubbub

62 St. Louis

landmark

63 “__ willikers!” 65 Actor Simu who

plays Shang-Chi

 ?? By Jay Silverman ?? 9/11/23
By Jay Silverman 9/11/23

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