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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Prepare to get up from one’s plane seat

7 Sucker for a flame 11 Camera letters 14 Hoi __

15 Mine, in Montreal 16 Rival

17 Mole, perhaps 19 Señora Perón 20 Palindromi­c

woman’s name 21 Either Bush 43

daughter

23 Bit of body ink 24 “The Black Cat”

author

25 Locker room

powders 26 Belgian expression­ist James

28 Stun

32 Diamond Head

locale

33 1974 musical based on a 1900 novel, with “The”

35 eBay offers

37 Drop off for a bit 38 “Amen!” ... or a hint to the start of four other long answers

42 Meter preceder 43 Lake formed by

the Hoover Dam 44 “Told __!”

45 Lox variety 47 Burst forth 49 Language in which “w” and “y” are considered vowels 53 2010 Barack

appointee 55 Parrot

57 Bothered a lot,

with “at”

58 Braille is one 62 Sooner State city 63 Vivid dye 64 Olympic event featuring death spirals 66 Volleyball scoring

unit

67 Small advantage 68 With 56-Down, type of black tea with another color in its name 69 Journal’s end? 70 Gaelic gal 71 Persuasive pieces

DOWN

1 Reason for a restart

2 Political pundit Peggy

3 Numbs

4 Idris of “Luther” 5 “Kidding!” letters 6 Associate with 7 Ancient trio

8 Black cat, to some 9 Quite a lot

10 “Start the music!” 11 __ Savitskaya, first woman to perform a spacewalk 12 Modern customer

support option 13 Reacts in fear, as a

horse 18 Wonderstru­ck 22 __ Tomé and

Príncipe 24 Spectrum maker 27 Pottervers­e

courier

29 Cabin or castle 30 Chard alternativ­e 31 Water whirled 34 Pizza pieces? 36 “Dred” novelist 38 Reveres

39 Heart-y message? 40 Upper limit 41 Color

42 __ hit: baseball

single

46 Carrier to Tokyo 48 Rolls of money 50 Pacific weather

phenomenon 51 Cheap 52 Risk-offsetting

investment­s 54 Cosmeticia­n

Adrien

56 See 68-Across 59 When tripled, “et

cetera” 60 Smokes, briefly 61 Crude metals 62 JFK board data 65 Cue followers

 ?? By Daniel Raymon ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ?? 7/21/21
By Daniel Raymon ©2021 Tribune Content Agency 7/21/21

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