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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Rankles 5 Go higher 10 Burgoo or ragout 14 Harvest 15 Speeder spotter 16 Dance for a lei

person 17 Cornstarch brand in a yellow-andblue container 18 String in a kids’

song 19 African antelope 20 Really cheap 23 Baltimore’s __ Harbor 24 Enjoy Vail 25 Podded plant 28 Fountain output 32 Sully 34 Rest area freebie 37 Precisely 40 Mother Nature’s balm 42 “The Glass Lake” writer Binchy 43 Trillion: Pref. 44 Worthless item 47 “Mamma Mia!” number 48 Slow movement 49 Move through muck 51 Kennedy twins? 52 Luthor of the

comics 55 Infield fly 59 Economic factor that affects three puzzle answers 64 Naan relative 66 Demand and obtain, as vengeance 67 Adopt-a-Pet pet 68 “Dilbert” intern 69 Comparativ­ely friendly 70 Geek Squad client 71 LGBT Pride Month 72 2017 A.L. MVP José Altuve, for one 73 Zip DOWN 1 Kirkuk native 2 “Seinfeld” episode, now 3 See 53-Down 4 Reproducti­ve bodies 5 Hudson Bay nation 6 Bear’s home 7 One may be called bright when it isn’t 8 “Downton Abbey” figures 9 Forest babbler 10 Christian Louboutin creation 11 Tolls are taken on them 12 Bridge expert Culbertson 13 Candle stuff 21 Easy gait 22 Tubular pasta 26 Summer month in Uruguay 27 Book with 11Down 29 St. Paul’s feature 30 Minimally 31 Drops, as pounds 33 Part of ACA 34 Scott Joplin’s “__ Leaf Rag” 35 Literary middle name 36 Goes all out 38 Downright nasty 39 “Finding Dory” character 41 __ salad 45 Club sport 46 “Around the Horn” channel 50 Strait of __: Persian Gulf outlet 53 With 3-Down, justice since 2010 54 Graph line 56 Hesitation 57 Unmitigate­d 58 Chemical prefix? 60 Maker of LeBron 15 basketball shoes 61 Delicate handling 62 Pastry prettifier 63 Other, in España 64 British rule in India 65 The Cowboys of the Big 12 Conf.

 ??  ?? By Mark McClain ©2018 Tribune Content Agency 2/1/18
By Mark McClain ©2018 Tribune Content Agency 2/1/18

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