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DAILY CROSSWORD

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1 Use a swizzle stick

5 Soothes to sleep

10 Poker pot starter

14 Skin opening

15 Starting lineup

16 Read, as a QR code

17 Wide-eyed with anticipati­on

18 Hollywood headliners

20 Wild “adios”?

22 “Cornflake Girl” singer Amos

23 Dodge pickup truck

24 Wild “goodbye”?

31 All-important

32 + or - particles

33 “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” cable network

34 Targets of Terro bait traps

35 Popovich who is the winningest coach in NBA history

37 Track competitio­n

38 Emulate Eileen Gu and Lindsey Vonn

39 __ and rave

40 Hunts, with “on”

41 Wild “auf wiedersehe­n”?

45 “Big Blue” on the Big Board

46 Fill a position

47 Wild “au revoir”?

53 Sign of stress? 55 French Quarter city, informally

56 Skinny tropical tree

57 Take place next

58 Bryce Canyon state

59 “Good point”

60 Cook in the oven 61 Pad thai protein

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1 Canned meat used in Hawaiian cuisine

2 “Julius Caesar” costume

3 Multivitam­in ingredient

4 Meets on the river?

5 Actress Hedy in the National Inventors Hall of Fame

6 Paradise

7 Jeans maker Strauss

8 Villain’s hideout

9 Using questionab­le campaign tactics

10 Inhaler user’s malady

11 Campus sports gp.

12 Road goo

13 USN rank

19 Unexpected hiccups

21 Yuletide song 24 Clickable

connection­s 25 High point of a home tour?

26 Deliberate­ly deceive

27 Ship captain’s journal

28 Org. exited in Brexit

29 Minds

30 Turns rancid

31 Seemingly limitless

35 Utility gauge

36 Many ICU profession­als

37 Snack food mascot with a monocle

39 Apply by massaging, as barbecue spices

40 Politicall­y motivated spending

42 Fugitive’s plea

43 Repeated song part

44 Unwelcome windshield item

47 Rights advocacy gp.

48 “Let’s ... never do that”

49 The Madrigal family home in “Encanto,” e.g. 50 Dog in Oz

51 Norwegian saint

52 Pearl Harbor site

53 Well-put 54 Catmobile, e.g.

 ?? ?? By Nancy Serrano Wu ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 7/19/22
By Nancy Serrano Wu ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 7/19/22

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