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ACROSS

1 *Mean message 9 Administer an oath to

16 2018 SAG Life Achievemen­t Award honoree 17 Above it all, in a

way

18 Featured dishes 19 Grassy expanse 20 Impassive 22 Skewed view 23 Walk leisurely 27 *Occasion for

hiring a babysitter 29 Beers served with

lime

32 Grubhub link 33 Persia, today 34 “Hidden Figures”

org.

36 Jazz great who was the first AfricanAme­rican man to win a Grammy 41 *”So Much to Say”

Grammy winners 45 Nocturnal sound 46 50+ group 47 Microsoft search

engine

48 Spring

51 Pungent cleanser 53 *Fits together

neatly

58 Put into words 59 Disney’s “__ and

the Detectives” 60 Hailed 63 Philadelph­ia school whose teams are the Explorers 65 Lucrative venture 70 Harness racer 71 Minor issue? 72 Stops

73 Mushy message, and the end of a sequence that progresses through the answers to the starred clues

DOWN

1 Consumes 2 Swiss mountain 3 __ kwon do 4 Env. insert

5 __ name 6 Banned fruit spray 7 Without much thought 8 Performed light surgery on?

9 Fla. recreation spot 10 Norton in “The Shawshank Redemption,” for one 11 Portuguese feminine pronoun 12 Excuse

13 Outfit again 14 Whitlock Jr. of “The Wire” and “Veep”

15 Arms treaty subj. 21 Big name in pianos 23 Corrosive

compounds 24 Colonel called “the second most dangerous man in London” by Sherlock Holmes 25 “Way to go!” 26 Introvert 28 Worn-down

pencils

30 Santa __ winds 31 Posed (for) 35 Swingline insert 37 Cloister leader 38 Canonized one 39 Concave navel 40 Painter Degas 42 Cheesy sandwich 43 Pitching stat 44 Typing stat 49 Young bird of prey 50 Broadcaste­rs 52 Confuse 53 Atlanta-based

airline 54 Astrologer Sydney 55 Cap brim

56 Thrill to pieces 57 “The Goldbergs”

actor George 61 Like deli orders 62 Hgt.

64 Capt.’s underlings 66 Max. opposite 67 “I think,” in texts 68 Minor quibble 69 Bastille Day time

 ?? By Pawel Fludzinski ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/8/22 ??
By Pawel Fludzinski ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/8/22

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